Daradics Árpád

A marosvásárhelyi születésű, jelenleg Budapesten élő Daradics Árpád 1990-ben fejezte be tanulmányait a kolozsvári Képzőművészeti Egyetem grafika szakán, majd 1990-91-ig a Magyar Képzőművészeti Főiskola Mesterképzőjén tanult.

Hosszú kitérő után 2001-ben kapott lehetőséget arra, hogy újra visszatérjen a képzőművészeti pályára. 2004-ben Bulgáriában, a LESSEDRA World Art Print Annual III. díját és a NKÖM Szakmai Díját, 2005-ben a József Attila Képzőművészeti pályázat különdíját, a finnországi Lahti Poster Biennal Pleasure díját, a Római Magyar Akadémia ösztöndíját, továbbá 2007-ben az angliai 2 Medial Art Biennial Prize of Excellence díját nyerte el.

Magyarországon és számos más országban állított ki egyéni és csoportos kiállításokon, többek közt Finnországban, Japánban, Mongóliában, Lengyelországban, Romániában, Franciaországban, Bulgáriában, Spanyolországban, Kanadában, Tajvanon, Tanzániában, Angliában, Ausztriában.

ARPAD DARADICS

1964 born in Tirgu Mures, Romania, lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.1985-1990 graduated at Ion Andreescu Fine Arts Academy, Cluj Napoca, Romania.Teachers:Nica Ioachim, Laszlo Feszt, Ioan Bugnariu Horvath. 1990-1991 Master training, Hungarian Fine Arts University, Budapest. Awards:Third Prize, Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Bulgaria 2004; Profesional Prize, The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Hungary 2004; Pleasure Prize, 15h International Lahti Poster Biennial, Finnland 2005; Special Prize, Attila Jozsef Art Competition, Hungary 2005; Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Roma 2005;Prize of Excellence, 2nd Medial Art Biennial, England 2007.

"Objects, people, and ideas do not change over time, what changes is the way we see, observe, and understand them", believes Arpad Daradics.The artist works with drawing, computer, photography, painting, sculpture and site works also.His graphics fascinate men, and women trough their aggressive irony, and thought-provoking ideas.The artist uses old photographs from the past two centuries.The designs of bright paint on darker backgrounds create themes by shocking the viewer with the intensity of emotions it radiates.Daradics's works are full of irony that strongly judges past problems and their solutions, yet unmasks our false inner models of the past.

Daradics became known in 2002 with his Red Stories.He breaks up the minimalist composition of pictures with very typical motives of his works, and colors that leave the viewer wondering.The extreme combination of pictures of old habits and mentality, with designes of modern way of thinking and perception, brings a different understanding to every individual.For example the innocent image of Red lambs is an ironical self-reflection of our intolerance the peaceful violence and a reminder of something about which we should not speak.The outspeaking of his pictures are surprising, only the mild deviations in their shapes suggest that we are dealing with non-reality within our artificial world.He is an author with a sharp ironical gase, unmasking without sentiment, our hypocritical consciousness, wich excludes the unpleasant and idealizes our own false inner models.The Red nose, the Speaker  or the Big soup titled works can be perceived as an ironization of power icons and social idols.Daradics is also a spontaneous and sensitive artist, and his subversive humor exposes us to a process pf purging.The spontaneous graphics seem to be reminders of things, thoughts, and ideas that might be unacceptable to be spoken of.Makes us aware that things do not change that much; it is only we who reassess our viewpoints and change the lenses of our seeing.The absurdity of his images rescues reality where, under the sediment of conventions, it slips away.