ARRIVALS>HUNGARY: BEÁTA VESZELY - FROM LIFE
10 January to 25 February 2007
For her exhibition From Life at Modern Art Oxford, Beáta Veszely presents her latest video, On the Way to Heaven, together with drawings from her ongoing series of HÁ drawings and a new painting, History Wanted.
The idea of violence, redemption and momentous events coincide with emotions of love and personal passions in Veszely’s delicately rendered pen drawings of contemporary horse archers. Executed on found magazine and newspaper pages, and displayed in rows of varying heights, these drawings suggest an animated landscape through which Veszely’s equestrian figure makes its way.
Beáta Veszely’s exhibition forms part of ARRIVALS>NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union.
From January 2007, Turner Contemporary, Margate presents the work of Hungarian artist Szabolcs KissPál. For more information visit www.turnercontemporary.org
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Note to Editors
Beáta Veszely was born in Budapest in 1970. She graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1994 and obtained an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2000. Veszely is currently a research student and director of TIPP, a collaborative research initiative between the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and Goldsmiths College. She lives and works in Budapest.