Kata Legrady
Kata Légrády (* 1974 in Barcs ) is a Hungarian opera singer , conductor and artist .
life and work
As a young student, Kata Légrády studied opera singing and composition at the Academy of Music and Fine Arts of the University in Pécs and acting at the Gór Nagy Mária Drama School in Budapest, worked in numerous musical and television productions, but then decided on a career as visual artist .
Her artistic work was influenced by her later mentor Prof. Daniel Spoerri , co-founder of the Nouveau Réalisme artist group and inventor of Eat-Art , the German artist and art theorist Prof. Bazon Brock and the artists Jacques Villeglé, Raymond Hains and Philippe Pasqua , whom she got to know while studying in New York, Oxford and Paris.
In her sculptures, photographs, drawings and video installations, the artist deals with the tension between violence, power and consumption, playing with handguns, hand grenades or aerial bombs with colorful smarties , elements of Disney characters, fur and feathers, or even combined with banknotes, decorated or painted with shrill candy colors. A disturbing tension arises between childhood and destruction, between violence, suffering and the memory of children's games. "Your fetish objects are a further development of surrealist object art in the age of high-gloss aesthetics."
With them, Kata Légrády wants to intervene in public discourses on global conflicts and crises. In line with this maxim, Légrády's alienated war equipment was juxtaposed in a special exhibition in 2014 on the occasion of the beginning of the First World War 100 years ago with the warning reflections of war by artist colleague Käthe Kollwitz in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin . Légrády's objects were intended to update Käthe Kollwitz's pacifist demands. The newspaper Die Welt praised this museum venture as “one of the most interesting and worth seeing exhibitions” of this commemorative year and as a “curatorial achievement” by the curators Gudrun Frisch and Pay Matthis Karstens.
Kata Légrády is the widow of the entrepreneur and art collector Jan A. Ahlers . She lives and works in Hanover , Paris , Kampen and Budapest .
Exhibitions (selection)
Kata Légrády's works are regularly shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions as well as at the important international art fairs:
Art fairs
- Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 \\ HKCEC, Hong Kong \\ Pékin Fine Arts
- The Armory Show 2013 \\ Piers 92 94, New York \\ Pékin Fine Arts
- Art Paris 2013 \\ Grand Palais, Paris \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion
- Drawing Now 2013 \\ Carrousel du Louvre, Paris \\ in collaboration with Galerie Rabouan Moussion
- Paris Photo 2012 \\ Grand Palais, Paris \\ Pékin Fine Arts
- Art Paris 2012 \\ Grand Palais, Paris \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion
- Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair 2012 \\ HKCEC, Hong Kong \\ Pékin Fine Arts
- Art Paris 2011 \\ Grand Palais, Paris \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion
- Art Paris 2010 \\ Grand Palais, Paris \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion
Exhibitions
2014
- War Room \\ Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong (group exhibition)
- Warning & Temptation - The War Imagery by Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Legrady. \\ Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin
- Kata Légrády: Smart Pistols ZKM \\ Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (solo exhibition)
2013
- Doublethink: Kata Légrády and Wang Luyan \\ Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
- Hybrid 2 \\ Ancien Hôpital Général, Douai
- Bombs and Candies \\ Kulturstiftung Marienmünster, Marienmünster (solo exhibition)
- Caravana Negra \\ La Bocca, Buenos Aires
- Artist in Society \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (solo exhibition)
2012
- Le Cabinet des Curiosités de Thomas Erber \\ Édition Spéciale - BMW George V, Paris
- Le Cabinet des Curiosités de Thomas Erber \\ Andreas Murkudis, Berlin
- Le Luxe, mode d'emploi \ Passage de Retz, Paris
- Bombs and Candies - dulce et decorum \\ Denkerei Prof. Bazon Brock, Berlin (solo exhibition)
2011
- Kata Légrády \\ Fondazione Mudima, Milan (solo exhibition)
- Le Cabinet des Curiosités de Thomas Erber \\ Browns, London
- Masks and Guns \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (solo exhibition)
- Kata Légrády \\ Galerie Pari Nadimi, Toronto (solo exhibition)
2010
- Bombs and Candies \\ Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris (solo exhibition)
literature
- David Rosenberg ea (ed.): Kata Légrády Graphic Works: Once Upon a Time… , SKIRA Editore, Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-572-1964-6
- Peter Weibel (Ed.): Kata Legrady: Smart Pistols , DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3954760572
- Gudrun Fritsch, Pay Matthis Karstens (ed.): Reminder and Temptation. The world of images of war by Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Legrady 1914-2014 , exhibition cat. Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin , EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3865023292
- Gino Di Maggio, David Rosenberg, Arturo Schwarz, Bazon Brock: Kata Légrády, SKIRA Editore, Milan 2013 , ISBN 8857219658
- David Rosenberg (Ed.): Bombs and Candies , SKIRA Editore, Milan 2011, ISBN 8857208605
Web links
Posts and newspaper articles
- “Dulce et decorum - The sugar weapons of the Kata Legrady” - Speech by Prof. Bazon Brock at the opening of the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the “Fondazione Mudima - Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea”, Milan 2012
- "Cuddly hand grenades" - contribution by WELT about the exhibition on Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Légrády, Berlin 2014
- “Tatort Kunst: Kata Legrady in Karlsruhe” - Contribution from FOCUS about the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe 2014
- "Kata Légrády in the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum - Bonbonbomben" - contribution of the Tagesspiegel about the exhibition on Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Légrády, Berlin 2014
- “To die for the fatherland” - contribution by taz on the exhibition on Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Légrády, Berlin 2014
- "Légrádys Popart against gun violence and economic power" - contribution of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten about the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe 2014
- “Ammunition with icing” - contribution by the Neue Westfälische on the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Marienmünster Cultural Foundation in 2013
- “Because they don't know what you are doing” - contribution by the Berliner Zeitung about the exhibition on Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Légrády, Berlin 2014
- "Evil, garnished with something sweet" - contribution by Deutschlandfunk about the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe 2014
Videos
- Video contribution to the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe 2014
- Video contribution to the Kata Légrády solo exhibition at the Marienmünster Cultural Foundation 2013
- Video contribution with selected works by Kata Légrády at the art fair "Art Paris" in the Grand Palais, Paris 2012
- Video contribution to the exhibition of selected works by Kata Légrádys as part of the “Nomades du Marais”, Paris 2011
Others
Individual evidence
- ↑ SWR2 Kulturthema from January 7, 2014
- ^ Publisher's text for the book publication "Kata Legrady: Smart Pistols"
- ↑ a b Cuddly hand grenades , at www.welt.de, accessed on June 7, 2018
- ↑ Source: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung No. 85, page 5 of Tuesday, April 12, 2016.
- ↑ Warning and Temptation - The War Imagery by Käthe Kollwitz and Kata Legrady ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed June 7, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Legrady, kata |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Légrády, Kata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcs |