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HORVÁTH CSABA ÁRPÁD
My installations and public art works can be interpreted as a kind of memorials – or anti-memorials – witches erects a deliberately banal memento to political or cultural phenomena.
INSTALLATIONS
Evergreen 2013. Mixed Media, Remake of the piedestal of the Werbőczy monument, which was destroyed in 1945
Transmission 2014. sound object, Remake of the piedestal of the Gömbös monument which was destroyed in 1944
IDEAL 2013. waterbased resin, mdf plate, paint , photos
This is a sort of ideal political portrait monument about the last century in Hungary.I choose the six most popular of them and make a mixture about their caharacters to create a new monument. I use the characters accordingly to the percentage of popularity.
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! 2010. steel, aluminimum, water based resin, paint, elastic organza, lightbox
It is a mini-monument with variable body gestures, and fictional trademarks which reflect of the changing status of the physical worker in the last century
GlooMy sunday 2006. concrete, embrodiered polar lining, rubber, steel, polystirol plate, aluminium sticker, dvd loop
Concrete installation where wearable clothes made into a disfunctional collection with a fictional brand called glooMYsunday. Includes the clothes and a short pseudo-commercial short film, which reflects the hungarian sucide song called Gloomy Sunday.
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