Apart from offering nice drinks and meals, Café Eklektika Restolounge has also set the goal of giving home to contemporary artists. From June 16 on, Eklektika presents Gábor Födő's works screen-printed on several transparent shower curtains and linocuts made on heat-reflecting foils used in the construction industry.
The young artist, who graduated from the Picture Graphic Department of the University of Fine Arts, regularly returns to the theme of bathing and the human activities related to bathing. 'How much can be expressed through such a simple daily routine?', Födő asks the question in his works. These funny, almost grotesque - or as Bianca Iványi put it, 'Hrabalian' - works reflect human relationships and human 'conflicts' which are so common that usually we don't even notice them.
However, it is exactly this everyday, unnoticeable quality that gives their power, suggesting a deeper, more universal message. These are the human relationships that the artist who has won several awards (among others, University of Fine Arts Corvin Award, the prize awarded by the Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists at the 6th National Competition of Grotesque, Fine, Applied and Photo Arts, the award of the 22nd Graphic Biennial of Miskolc, and the award of the Local Government of the City of Eger) describes in depth, highlighting certain details and individualizes embedded in a very characteristic world.
It seems as if the works exhibited (especially Aquafitness and Push the Pedals, Lacika) whispered to us that although we may see certain fragments of life as comedy, we shouldn't forget that it is at the same time full of tragedies. Tragic approach to life and humour, humour and laughter as the highest level of cognition - these may be the fundamental assumptions of Gábor Födő's art.
