Oto Hudec

AGÚ DI TCHUBA LDA

Exhibition opening: 14. 10. 2016 / 19.00 hod. Exhibition's duration: 15. 10. - 4. 11. 2016 Exhibition's curator: Marek Kuchár

 

Oto Hudec (*1981, Košice) is a multimedia visual artist, whose work focuses on the topics of ecology, immigration and the impact of globalization on the environment. Just the last mentioned, he forms the ideological core for the exhibition called Agú di Tchuba Lda (translated as Rainwater s.r.o.).

The author is going to present the project on which he was working on during his two-year stay in Cape Verde and Portugal. A site-specific installation of objects, paintings, photographs and videos connecting the rural environment of the Cape Verde Islands and the outskirts of Lisbon, where immigrants from these islands live, will be created in the Šopa Gallery. The element that connects these environments is water, rain, its scarcity and the consequences for the economy or the overall quality of life (lack of water in this area is the cause of the frequent migration of Cape Verdean citizens). The aim of this exhibition project is to create a fictitious idea of a possible return of water to Cape Verde.

Oto is a graduate of doctoral studies at the VŠVU in Bratislava. He is represented by Gandy Gallery – a French gallery operating in Bratislava. In 2012, he was a finalist for the Oscar Čepan Award. He has exhibited at the Slovak National Gallery, Kunsthalle Bratislava, at the MAP Triennial (Dallas, USA), at the Threewalls Gallery (Chicago, USA) or at the Georges-Pompidou Center in Paris, which even has one of Hudec’s works in his collection.

Exhibitions of this gallery are supported by Slovak Arts Council.

Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project.