This workshop introduces participants to the art of hand-coloring black-and-white photographs using watercolors. Starting with simple images and progressing to more detailed ones, participants will explore both realistic and experimental techniques. Materials provided include photographs printed on watercolor-friendly paper, liquid watercolors, brushes, and all necessary tools for an engaging hands-on experience. The session begins with examples and a live demonstration, followed by guided practice as participants bring their photos to life with color and creativity.
Date & time: 2 February 2025, 3-4 PM, Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village
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While working on the spruce trees project I got to know a bit more about Auróra’s Climate Garden. You can walk past it and not even realize all the effort put into creating and maintaining it, all by a group of volunteers who understand that we need more green than concrete if we want to live in liveable cities. The idea of planting a mini forest in a parking lot (and not using any of the city resources to water it!) is something any city should learn from. I talked to Mark Richards about the reasons behind creating the garden, permaculture, the state of the climate and everything around it. The interview is part of the exhibition at CEU’s Nyitott Galéria and now you can also read it HERE.
The exhibition of international and Hungarian artists began in a garden in Budapest, examining the issues surrounding the decline of a well-known tree species, the Norway spruce. This exhibition, which expands on the local, Eastern European context, presents the complex ecological, horticultural, and social context of tree loss through stories about trees that highlight contemporary issues of the human-to-more-than-human relationship. At the same time, the research-based exhibition enriches the artist; playful-critical works with local activist-experimental examples that provide models for new tree-replacement strategies or urban opportunities for creating functioning ecosystems.
Opening:
17. October, 2024, Thursday 6 p. m. Opening Performance by Zahra Fuladvand Greeting Speech: Flóra László, CEU
The exhibition is open:
17. October – 30. October, 2024. Open Gallery CEU
Budapest, 1051. Nádor utca 11
Artists: Clarissa Butelli (BRA), Mária Chilf (HU), Erekle Chinchilakashvili (GE), Zahra Fuladvand (IR),
Kitti Gosztola (HU), Daniela Jauregui (MEX), Ania Jopp (PL), Hanan Saif (SY)
Curator: Tünde Varga
Curator assistents: Laura Pass, Kira Ferenczi, Juilanna Hemrik, Imola Sudár, Barbara Faragó, Anna Zsibrita
Contributors:
Márton Nyerges, expert,
Mark Richards, Auróra climate garden,
Iván András Bojár, 10 million tree, miyawaki miniforest,
Borhy Balázs, expert
Visual identity
Zoltán Visnyai
Some of the works of my students from the ‘Handcoloring black and white photos’ workshop at the.warehouse.ae on 14 Sep 2024
THE TALE OF THE NORWAY SPRUCE AND THE BARK BEETLE - Ecological Crisis and Trauma
Opening: 30 August 2024, Friday 18.00 h
The exhibition is open: 31 August — 13 September, 2024.
Location: Budapest, 1111. Kende u. 1.
Starting from a garden, the international artists’ exhibition investigates the phenomenon of traumatic loss and disappearance of a well-known species, affecting local residents personally, as well as the problem of ecological change in general in a local, regional context. The research-based exhibition explores the complex ecological, horticultural and social issues related to the extinction of spruce trees with special emphasis to the relationship between human and more than human agency. The exhibiting artists’; research was supported by experts who gave lectures throughout the semester, with examples such as new strategies for tree replacement, urban opportunities for creating functioning ecosystems.
Artists: Ania Jopp (PL), Manuel F. Contreras (CO), Audette Hyder (SYR), Danny Foley (IR), Yeasir Arafat and Marta Massa (IT), Georg Winter (D), Van Duursen Luna Elín (NL) és Subotic Barbara (SRB)
Curators: Tünde Varga, Ágnes Keszegh
Contributors:
Márton Nyerges, Tree care expert
Mark Richards, Auróra klímakert
Iván András Bojár, 10 million trees
Balazs Borhy, expert
Visual Identity Zoltán Visnyai
More details about my project can be found here
More on the exhibition on artmagazin.hu
