Fanni Bácskai's childhood passion for horses took her all the way to a degree in marine biology, when last January she was asked to do an exhibition of her own with Swiss artist Steph Hermes. Since then, she has been travelling the world as a freelancer, and her work can be viewed In the interview below, she tells us about her love of horses, her unique 3D art and how her paintings came to be on the walls of Yellow.
HOW DID YOU GET THE IDEA TO CREATE YELLOW'S EXTRAVAGANT NEW LOOK?
I was an exhibitor at the previous Art Market Budapest when Yellow's owner Balázs little daughter noticed one of my paintings, from the Dafne series. Balázs then asked me to do this unusual project and I said yes straight away.
I SEE THAT YOU LIKE TO PLAY WITH COLOURS AND THAT YOU ALSO LIKE STRONG CONTRASTS AND FEMALE FIGURES. CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THIS FINAL WORK OF ART, WHICH LOOKS BACK AT US FROM THE WALLS OF YELLOW, CAME ABOUT?
The style itself is called Glitch Art. It's a modern art form, which is actually the result of our technological development: we use digital or analogue errors for aesthetic purposes. In this case, we applied the stylistic features of this phenomenon to the graphics from the Dafne series of paintings, which we photographed and then digitally post-processed to produce the final result on the wall. Contrast was central to the final look, with modern vs classic, digital vs analogue and whole vs fragmented as the main pillars. This extreme contrast is also evident in the original painting in the person of the voluptuous, yet prudish, secretive women. Balázs, who coordinated the project throughout, was a great help in the final colour selection. He adapted his ideas to the needs of a real, premium nightclub, and my graphic designer colleague Viktor Megyeri and I would like to thank him again for allowing us to be the ones to realise these ideas.
YOU HAVE MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES YOUR SERIES OF PAINTINGS CALLED DAFNE. CAN YOU GIVE US SOME DETAILS?
It's actually a series of oil paintings on plexiglass that debuted at Art Market Budapest last year. One of the very exciting pillars is a chameleon, which is painted on several small sheets of plexiglas, and if you look at it from the front you can see it in 3D space.
H O R S E. THE ART ITSELF. WHAT DOES THIS SENTENCE MEAN TO YOU?
I have been a horse lover since I was a little child, and I have raced with my own horses. I started to learn about horses in a self-taught way, purely out of my childhood passion, down to the smallest details. Hence, my main profile is actually the depiction of horses. To this day, I go riding a lot and I have a great desire to one day create my own outdoor equestrian sculpture.
2018
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