Your Documents Please
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2B Gallery
Budapest, Hungary
November 28, 2008 - December 30, 2008

                  
 
The exhibiiton, “Your Documents Please” reflects a contemporary spectrum of issues of identity and the impact of its documentation. Daniel Georges and Rumiko Tsuda have teamed with Alma on Dobbin and The Museum of Arts and Crafts - Itami (Japan) to mount this show which opened in April 2008 in Itami and traveled to ZAIM art space in Yokohama Japan. Now it is in Budapest at 2B Gallery and will continue to Berlin, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.
 
Participants were asked to make a small artwork about the size of a passport or smaller that functions visually or conceptually as if it were an identification document. Work by more than 250 artists living in 26 countries is included. For more information and to view a complete on-line catalog visit yourdocumentsplease.com.

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Bartok's Bugs                      

March 5 - April 14, 2007

Featuring works by Bálint Bory, Ken Butler                      (USA), Károly Elekes, Andrea Hajagos, Balázs                      Kicsiny, Sándor Racmolnar, John Roach (USA), Gábor                      Roskó, Róbert Swierkiewicz, Dezsö Tandori,                      Tibor Várnagy, Arpád Zsák.

Béla Bartok has been known throughout the world as                      one of the most important composers of the 20th Centur, as                      well as a collector of folk music from Europe and the Middle                      East, as well as bird sounds.

Less known is that besides music, he was an avid collector                      of insects. His formidable collection included many species                      from Europe, South America and North Africa. The insect collectionswere                      ultimately eaten by other bugs.

                    

"He collected specimens: plants, minerals, and,                        especially, insects. Later in life he expressed his philosophy                        using a homely image drawn from nature: "There is life                        in this dried-up mound of dung. There is life feeding on                        this dead heap. You see how the worms and bugs are working                        busily helping themselves to whatever they need, making                        little tunnels and passages, and then soil enters, bringing                        with it stray seeds. Soon pale shoots of grass will appear,                        and life will complete its cycle, teeming within this lump                        of death."

                    

- Peter Hughes

                  

Alma On Dobbin and 2B Gallery asked contemporary artists                      to respond to Bartok's bug collection with their own artworks.                      A number of the objects in the exhibition were brought to                      life by a group of puppeteers, who staged a performance at                      the opening. As well, video documentation was projected in                      the gallery's Black Room.

The Waldsee Exhibition

Recently exhibited at the Hibel Museum of Art, Jupiter, Florida,                      January 2, - March 30, 2007.

ALMA ON DOBBIN is a New York City-based not-for-profit                      organization dedicated to the promotion and development of                      arts and culture between East-Central Europe and the American                      art world. Through exchange programs, joint exhibitions, residencies                      and educational outreach, ALMA ON DOBBIN aims to encourage                      creative thinking and art-making, audience development and                      to educate the public about the diversity of artistic traditions                      of East-Central Europe, and its relationship with the US.