Photon Gallery shall present solo exhibition Deep Surfaces of Aniko Robitz, one the most pervasive and important protagonists of new Hungarian and European photographic and contemporary art scene. Extensive exhibition is about to present her activity and creativity of last two years within a multi-media set up, showing her specific, classically perceived photographic approach. Works of Aniko Robitz are underlining formally cleansed and sensitive visual imagery, inspired by photographic experiments of historical avant-gardes, modernist tradition as well as contemporary technical and artistic methods.

Aniko Robitz’s photographs are rather surreal in their expression for they exceed perception of the real image in their unidentifiable nature. The minimal presence of narrative is contained within the title of the particular work that eloquently speaks about the manner of artistic process, the time and place of the photograph and simultaneously alludes to the more concrete definition of the motif whose detail was captured by the artist who at the same time completely changes the meaning of the very same motif. The sharp contrast of black and white, light and shadows that fill the photographs translate lines and structures of the depicted object to the two dimensional surface. Contrasting surfaces lead into abstraction with undefined motifs, flirting with constructivism, minimalism and in some ways also with op-art. Aniko Robitz’s influences – beside aforementioned giants of Hungarian and European modernist photography – is the work of Lucien Hervé, prominent architectural photographer with a  unmistakable artistic aesthetic, a contemporary and a collaborator of numerous famous architects from 20th century. Through her radical deconstruction and presentation of the image Aniko Robitz goes even further by extending ephemeral motifs into the realm of the metaphysical.

Aniko Robitz’s recent project Deep Surfaces, developed over the last two years, consists of a selection of 30 photographs and a video clip, an extension of her artistic thinking that expands the central creative output (photography) into the frames of other artistic media such as video, animation and music.

More: http://www.anikorobitz.com

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia / Municipality of Ljubljana / Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
Sponsor: Center Projekcije