Ugron Reka

Born in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, 16.03.1981.

Yet, through my works of art, I try to emphasize that we are actually captive in an artificial world whose limits we miss, just like we totally miss its control - which, finally, is not very troublesome, but that something, which we unfortunately cannot control any longer, and we should be able to, in a system of options freely agreed upon, is our own becoming, our own behaviour, our own choices. Thus I express an expressionist vision with existential implications, by means of a language with neo-pop allusions, accessible, I hope, to a larger audience. We found the same threat of urbanism, fashion and artificiality expressed with the support of the show-cases in front of which there was, floating at a loss, a crowd of souls, in the first stage of expressionism (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner). This time the accent is on the iconic force of the show-case and on the premises of its idolatrization (The Show-Case, Pompea). The effects are only implied, the victims, invisible in my works, of this idolatry are we, each independently, therefore subjects of a manipulation well-conducted in the harmful concert of a prophane religion whose reverse perspective derives from the sacralization of hedon...

Studies: 2004 - Graduating the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Painting Department; 2009 - Graduating the Master Degree pogramme of Faculty of Fine Arts . From 2007, member of the Union of Professional Artists in Timisoara. Solo exhibition: "Plastic People" Calina Contemporary Art Gallery, 2009.
Grup exhibitions: "Birds", Art club, Timisoara, Romania - 2004; "Without dot", Helios Gallery, Timisoara, Romania - 2008; Annual exhibition of the fine artists , Contemporary Art Museum, Timisoara, Romania - 2008.,