Florin Tudor and Mona Vatamanu are acknowledged as the most important representatives of young media artists working in Bucharest, and alongside their activity as artists they also curate the Coop Media Festival of Bucharest. They both graduated from the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts, while Florin Tudor also secured a diploma in art history as well as art theory at the same institution.
Their videos are three-dimensional animation, their mini dv's are stories that thematically originate in events of their personal life. For example the project entitled “Red” deals with a sea-shore 30km off Venice, which reminded them of the desert in Antonioni’s film Red Desert, which in turn lead their thoughts to the political madness in which they have to live. In another one of their projects they explore the life stories of two lonesome dogs, one of which is poisoned; this was the starting point of the animation titled Hyperhouse, where houses travel through various spaces, collecting and saving animals, making a statement about a different relationship between humans and animals.
Though we are dealing with artists of international fame (with exhibitions in 2002 in the collective project “World View” in Rotterdam at the Witte de With and in the programme of the Rumanian Pavilion at the Eighth Venice Biennial of Architecture, they furthermore participated on the International Video Festival of Detroit, in ISEA “ORAI” in Nagoya Electronic Theatre, on the Viper Festival in Basel and concurrent to their Budapest debut their works are on show at Cybersonica in the ICA in London) this is their first exhibition in Budapest. For the work they will realise by the end of their residency programme, which shall touch upon Budapest in particular, the relationship of their own story lead through houses, the urban environment, a “personal architecture”, a virtual architecture that is born of their imagination, the human body and birds will be the starting point.
Curator: Kata Krasznahorkai
