May 2014

Urban Textures

Eszter Bornemisza is a Hungarian mixed media artist who lives in the city of Budapest, which serves as an ongoing inspiration for her work. Her starting points are ideas that reflect on our relations to traces of settlements of past and modern cultures: the layers of existence. City plans appear in her pieces as motifs, signs, traces, and ruins – the silt of the past and the present. As our urban structure develops, widens, thickens, clots and creates subsystems in history, the cities that live within us undergo an endless and continuous evolution. Bornemisza often applies city grids to silhouettes of the human figure to picture the organic nature of urban life. With recycled paper, reprinted newspaper, discarded threads and yarns in her netted and dimensionally shaped pieces, Bornemisza attempts to portray the ephemeral nature of surrounding world.

In this exhibition Urban Textures, Bornemisza will show textile and paper based mixed media wall pieces and some of her latest large scale transparent fibre installation. She will give a gallery talk about her inspirations and methods on May 3rd.  She will explain her processes through some samples of various stages of work.

Visit the artist’s website at www.bornemisza.com