JÚLIA VÉGH

PORTFOLIO

FICTION OF THE REALITY - 2015

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VÉGH JÚLIA ZSUZSANNA

PERSONAL INFORMATIONS

Date and Place of Birth 28 June 1990, Budapest, Hungary Citizenship Hungarian E-mail: veghjulia@gmail.com Website www.veghjulia.com, http://veghjulia.tumblr.com/

EDUCATION 2010 - 2016 Hungarian University of Fine Arts / MKE Painting Master of Arts Budapest Hungary 2009 Fashion Model School, Textile Department, Fashion Design Budapest Hungary 2008 - 2010 Design and Drawing Studio Budapest Hungary

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AWARDS

2015 ESSL Art Award prize Budapest Hungary 2015 Special prize of „Római P’Art 14” art contest Budapest Hungary

2014 III. Prize of UniCredit Bank ’Talent Program’ at Forrás Gallery Budapest Hungary 2014 Prize of Barcsay Jenő Foundation of Fine Art Szentendre Hungary 2012 - 2013 I. Prize of City of Young Talent Award by the Town Hall of V. District of Budapest Budapest Hungary 2012 - 2013 I. Prize of Scholarship of Barcsay Award by MKE Budapest Hungary 2011 II. Prize of Fáy 225 Creative Competition by Fáy András Foundation of OTP Bank Budapest Hungary 2011 I. Prize of Where I Feel Good Drawing Contest by the Town Hall of V. District of Budapest Hungary 2010 II. Prize of Clear Water Drawing Competition by ARTEXPO Budapest Hungary EXHIBITION 2015 ’MÁsKÉP’ at Tat Art Gallery Budapest Hungary

2015 ’Hungarian collection for Imago Mundi’ at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice Venice Italy 2015 ’KOLLÁZS’ at Four Season Hotel – Greshem Palace Budapest Hungary 2015 ’Artist discourse’ at Godot Gallery Budapest Hungary 2015 ’MKE Diploma ’ at Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest Hungary 2015 ’ESSL Art Award’ at Budapest Gallery Budapest Hungary 2015 ’AMADEUS’ Award exhibition at MKE Budapest Hungary 2015 ’Reflection’ at Berekai Art Studio Budapest Hungary 2014 ’The Light’ Budaoest Esély Nonprofit Kft. at Város Boltja Budapest Hungary

2014 ’Barcsay 25’ Jubilee exhibition at ArtMill Museum by Barcsay Jenő Foundation of Fine Art Szentendre Hungary 2014 ’Anonimus’ by Brody ArtYard Gallery at Budapest Art Market Budapest Hungary 2014 'TRANSPARENT CABANYAL' at Pastis des Art Gallery Valencia Spain 2014 ’Talent Program’ by UniCredit Bank at Forrás Gallery Budapest Hungary 2014 ’PARK FICTION’ at Bunker Gallery Budapest Hungary 2014 ’TRANSPARENT PRESENT’ by Amadeus Művészeti Alapítvány and cARTc space and Budapest Hungary projects of contemporary art at AMATÁR 2014 ’GÉN-TÉR-KÉP’ Group exhibition at Artus Gallery Budapest Hungary 2014 ’Group exhibition’ III. Mazars Galéria Képzőművészeti Kiállítása Budapest Hungary 2014 ’The Black Soup’ Group exhibition at EVERYBODY NEEDS ART Gallery Budpaest Hungary 2014 ’Awardees Exhibition’ at Ferenczy Museum by Barcsay Jenő Foundation of Fine Art Szentendre Hungary 2014 ’Three Poing of View’ at Brody Studios Budapest Hungary 2013 ’Charity Christmas Exhibition’ at Everybody Needs Temporary Art Gallery Budapest Hungary 2013 ’Group exhibition’ by Kiskép Gallery at MTA Budapest Hungary 2013 ’Solo’Bianco at Pop-Up Gallery Budapest Hungary 2013 ’Solo’ INNER EXHIBITION Budapest Hungary 2013 Downtown Art Days – Exhibition Series by Local Goverment Budapest Hungary 2013 ’60th Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely’ at Tornyai János Museum Hódmezővásárhely Hungary 2013 Iszkaszentgyörgy-i National Art Camp Final Exhibition by Ari Kupsus Gallery Iszkaszentgyörgy Hungary 2013 Charity Auction by ARTSHO4 & Brody Studios Budapest London 2013 ’Concentration’ Mazart Gallery Budapest Hungary 2013 ’OMDK’ at Vitkovits Gallery & Hous Eger Hungary 2013 ’Group exhibition’ ArtMill Gallery at Budapest ARTEXPO Szentendre Hungary 2012 ’Group exhibition’Brody House Studios at Budapest Art Market Budapest Hungary 2012 ’MVM Nucleal Power Plant of Paks’ by Alternart Art Association Paks Hungary 2012 ’Young Art Minds Exhibition’ at Art Hotel Wrocław Poland 2012 Amadeus Foundation and Hungarian University of Fine Arts / MKE Budapest Hungary 2012 ’IMDK and Hungarian University of Fine Arts / MKE Budapest Hungary 2012 ’Barcsay Award’ of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts / MKE Budapest Hungary 2011 ’StudentArtWorks’ at Camden Art Gallery London England

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2011 ’Art Moments’ by OTP Bank Budapest Hungary 2009 ’Christmas Charity’ Auction by Rotary Club Budapest-City Budapest Hungary

2008 ’The Year of Renaissance’at the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest Hungary 2008 ’Solo’ at Puskin Gallery Budapest Hungary 2007 ’Represented Hungary’ at Forth Worth Art Contest Texas USA PUBLICATIONS 2015 Balkon Art Magazin 2015_ 7 – ’Változatok fgalmiságára’ Veronika Hermann – 20.p. Budapest Hungary

2014 Contemporary Artists from Hungary Imago Mundi Collection Venice Italy 2012 ’Inner-City Treasure Calendar’ Teasure Downtown Association Budapest Hungary 2011 ’Reperto’ Art Special Edition by Hamu and Gyémánt Publisher Budapest Hungary 2011 ’Inner-City Treasure Calendar’ Teasure Downtown Association Budapest Hungary 2011 ’Facial Reconstruction The archeological finds of Perkáta-Nyúli-dűlő processed through drawing Research material of the Art Anatomy, Drawing and Geometry Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts’ Hungarian University of Fine Arts / MKE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITION 2013 Member of the Student ArtWorks Association Wrocław Poland 2012 Member of the Brody House and Art Studios community Budapest Hungary LANGUAGE English fluent Spanish basic Hungarian native

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STATEMENT

„I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so

contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a sort of surreality, if one may so speak."(André

Breton)

My works depict the dynamism of remembrance and continuously re-interpret everyday situations. I

emphasize the incidence, which composes seemingly distant elements into one given frame of space

and time. Representing the reminiscent ego, the images become dreamlike and personal. The

dynamic memory selects freely, composing a new, fictional narrative world, like in Surrealism.

Beyond free association by photomontage and collage, my recurrent sources of inspiration are motifs

and materials. Works that come into being this way reflect Central European situations in a

studiously personal and ironic manner.

These works start from the images of news coming from my actual surroundings. Then I paint the

protagonists of photos I collected onto this layer to rewrite the real news into fictional narrative

situations by the collage technique. Dynamic memory, confronting and composing real/unreal,

experience/non-experience, has a significant role in creating these works. During this process I

reflect on the press also, by creating my own liberty of press in these works. Parallel and reverse

time horizons meet in a visual way, within the transparent layers of the photo film just like in the

ancient palimpsestus. By fusing these layers, collage works become fictional images, summaries of

our social existence.

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PÁLYAMUNKA

1, HUNGARIAN CAMP / MONTAGE PAINTING / OIL, PAPER / 33x43 cm / 2015

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TRANSPARENT FLYER / COLLAGE PAINTING / 21x17 cm / 2014

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FRONT 13:21 / COLLAGE PAINTING / 21x17 cm / 2014

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LET’S BE WORLD FAMOUS, BUT NOT THIS WAY / COLLAGE PAINTING / 21x17 cm / 2014

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FICTION OF THE REALITY / COLLAGE PAINTING 24 PIECES / 20x30 cm / 2015

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FICTION OF REALITY - THE COLLAGES OF JULIA VEGH

Three works, each smaller than A4 size. An application for an art award

could hardly be more restrained. In fact, the three paintings come from

the same series and could have been proposed as one work, leaving room

for two further series or compositions to be handed in at the application,

and to be shown at the Nominees Exhibition, within the limit of three

works per artist. This core strategy of highlighting a single series, of

miniature size, came to work well, earning a prize for Júlia Végh. She had

followed the same concept of focusing on select painterly devices already

in building up the paintings. First, by concentrating on a well-defined set

of social and political events from the public arena of the post-Soviet

region, content-wise she had developed a clear issue. Second, as explained

in her statement, although the technique of interpreting these news cut-

outs is way more complex, yet it promotes again a well-thought-out

conclusion on the inseparable borderline situation of imaginary and real

scenes. All in one, a single series, small sizes, a narrow focus on seemingly

banal, widely-distributed photographic snapshots of mass media news

coverage, as well as a commitment to a psychological rendering of

(sur)realistic painting: this is the recipe that underlies Júlia Végh’s

programme.

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We observe a determination to reduce to a minimum the means by which

the artist pursues her goals; yet the result is far from being reductive. The

small compositions offer an abundance of dynamic street scenes which we

are invited to read individually, according to our own experience of these

violent events from current East European public life. The colour spectrum

is no less vibrant, with glowing reds and alarming yellows rushing up

against cool greys and aristocratic whites. The interplay of photography

and painting on the transparent foil, rather than traditional canvas,

provides another welcome puzzle to the eye. As layers are mounted on

each other, the works gain a powerful depth, like reliefs. This healthy

juxtaposition of few artistic means reinforcing each other in favour of

innumerable effects guarantees the riches of these paintings, making this

series a relative of earlier Hungarian award winners (Dia Zékány, 2013;

apart from her larger sizes, also Anett Hámori, 2011) both in political

content and in what I’d call conceptual-realistic painterly medium.

Gábor Ébli for the Jury

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KÁRÓ 3, BUT THE WIND IS STILL BLOWING! / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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PUBLIC LECTURE / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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DEMONSTRATION IN THE DESERT / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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FOUNDATION / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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NO FIRE / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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BALANCE / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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FRONT IN PARIS / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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MARKET/ COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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DIFFERENT ROAD / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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BLICC / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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CELEBRATION ON THE HILL / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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THE GREAT FLOOD / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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GOOD TEAM / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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NEW LAND / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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IMPOSSIBLE STEP / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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COLD CONVERSATION / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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NEXT TO THE GAP / COLLAGE PAINTING / 20x30 cm / 2015

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PÁLYAMUNKA

2, CAPE OG GOOD HOPE / COLLAGE OIL PAINTING / 59x42 cm / 2015

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OUT OF THE CIRCLE / COLLAGE OIL PAINTING / 59x42 cm / 2015

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TOTEM OF ROCKET / COLLAGE OIL PAINTING / 30x40 cm / 2015

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PÁLYAMUNKÁK

1, HUNGARIAN CAMP / MONTAGE PAINTING / OIL, PAPER / 33x43 cm / 2015 260 000 Ft

2, CAPE OG GOOD HOPE / COLLAGE OIL PAINTING / 59x42 cm / 2015 290 000 Ft

NYILATKOZAT

Alulírott Végh Júlia Zsuzsanna nyilatkozom arról, hogy a pályázatra benyújtott művem „dobogós” (első 10) szelekciója

esetén az anyagom feltölthető a Kepesita Collection blogjára.

BUDPAEST, 2015.11.14. VÉGH JÚLIA ZSUZSANNA