TAT  Contemporary Art Gallery

Andrea Gulyás’s pictures seem to be completely average, to be fit into everyday life at first sight, but in a second, one can realize something is not quite right. Although in her paintings, everyday objects and human body parts are to be seen, she distorts them just enough for them to lose both their function and everyday quality. Plates are set under the table, there are handles at both openings of a door, disassembled parts of chairs and tables are put into an order of motif, there is a prism made up of doors and a mug and a pot turned inside out, one can even see X-ray images of hands and a torso here – but the bones are put in apple-pie order. Playing with the harmony of colors, cool, almost negligent compositions, creating a calm, Sunday-afternoon atmosphere and suggesting ease by picking average titles all add up to a unique universe, which looks normal at first sight, and only after a brief reflection becomes the absurdity and qrotesqueness of it apparent. The viewer’s associative imagination is then aroused and cannot rest thereafter, seeking for newer and newer projections of this special world in Gulyás’s paintings.

 

Barbara Orsolya Balázs

 

 

Translated by Anna Voelgyi