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At her first solo exhibition at acb, Rita Süveges (1986) debuts with her new series of velvet paintings and a monumental steel drawing connected to this cycle. In addition to exploring retrofuturism - vision of the future from the past - the starting point of her velvet works is light itself. On the nearly monochromatic surfaces of her paintings, Süveges composes gradually unfolding images from the interplay of light and shadow, brightness and darkness. The exhibition’s title refers to the fact that sunlight - the primary force shaping life on Earth - takes approximately eight minutes to reach our planet through space, which span of time hasn’t changed in our solar system for millions of years. Süveges’s immersive painting draws viewers in with low-intensity contrasts of light and color. Her works typically cannot be fully perceived at only a glance; viewers must linger in front of the paintings, allowing their eyes to adjust to the visuality, just as...More
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At her first solo exhibition at acb, Rita Süveges (1986) debuts with her new series of velvet paintings and a monumental steel drawing connected to this cycle. In addition to exploring retrofuturism - vision of the future from the past - the starting point of her velvet works is light itself. On the nearly monochromatic surfaces of her paintings, Süveges composes gradually unfolding images from the interplay of light and shadow, brightness and darkness. The exhibition’s title refers to the fact that sunlight - the primary force shaping life on Earth - takes approximately eight minutes to reach our planet through space, which span of time hasn’t changed in our solar system for millions of years. Süveges’s immersive painting draws viewers in with low-intensity contrasts of light and color. Her works typically cannot be fully perceived at only a glance; viewers must linger in front of the paintings, allowing their eyes to adjust to the visuality, just as...More
