Longtermhandstand, Budapest

Julie Béna, Róza El-Hassan, Péter Gallov, Ádám Ulbert

Longtermhandstand is an international art gallery system and soul care center, energized by Peter Bencze and Réka Lőrincz.
“We are handstanding on the field of contemporary art with a longterm vision.”

Longtermhandstand is preparing for this year’s Artorama with a medially diverse presentation, from contemporary drawing to research-based art.

Their stand will feature work by distinguished international artists.
Alongside works by one of the most promising French artists, Julie Béna, three Budapest artists, Péter Gallov and Róza El Hassan, will be showing works on paper and an installation by Adam Ulbert.

Julie Béna

Julie Béna’s work is made up of an eclectic set of references, combining contemporary and ancient literature, high and low art, humor and seriousness, parallel times and spaces. Comprising sculpture, installation, film, and performance, her work seems to often float in an infinite vacuum, unfolding against a fictional backdrop where everything is possible. Over the past years, Béna has developed a range of personal cosmologies in which she stages seemingly banal characters and objects that have enigmatic conversations and interactions with each other. From Pantopon Rose – a character taken from William S. Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’ –, to Miss None and Mister Peanut – a disembodied floating wig and the iconic monocled anthropomorphic peanut –, Béna lends her characters a singular agency and voice, which defines them by what they are not.

Julie Béna was born in 1982 in Paris, France, and currently lives and works between Prague and Paris. She is a graduate of the Villa Arson, Nice, and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2012–13, she was part of le Pavillon, the research laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix AWARE women art prize.

Péter Gallov

“Like a sophisticated optical instrument, Peter Gallov focuses on a central element in certain works. In his composition LavaThunder (2020), we see an active volcano through a wavy-edged probe. The juxtaposition of glowing light and dark tones gives the eye a kind of mini roller-coaster experience: the details create a magical illusion of coalescence that collapses space-time. The artist, who identifies himself with the pencil tip, begins his drawing by balancing his posture, then moves on to a strange repetition of movements through an awareness of the weight of the arm. To the point where there is no difference between knowing and not knowing. The desire to retrace the creative process also leads the recipient into this Zen garden.”Patrick Tayler

Róza El-Hassan

Róza El-Hassan (°1966) is born in Budapest, where she still lives today. After studying painting at the Academy for Fine Arts in Budapest, she continues her studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and subsequently in the intermedia department in Budapest. Her mother is Hungarian, her father is Syrian, which spurs her on to question the formation of identity and society.
El-Hassan works with many different media, often covering ‘true to life’ political topics. Her work becomes directly involved with the subjugated ‘other’, something the art world frequently chooses to neglect. In this way she works intensively at increasing awareness, concerning the fate of the Syrian people during the civil war.
While she is now internationally seen in a discursive framework, her work was originally primarily seen as imagining energies, such as for instance her literally mounted objects from the middle of the nineties. This dimension of her work can be seen in the mystical tradition of Middle Europe.

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