Ybl Budai Kreatív Ház
An open community, cultural center and cafe on the Danube, directly across from Castle Garden Bazaar/Várkert Bazár. The exhibits change regularly both inside and out. It’s a lovely building and location and well worth a visit when you walk by during your stroll along the Danube on the Buda side of the river.
Here is an example of what you can see, this is the current 11/18 exhibit of Li Qiang.
Li Qiang was born in 1966 as a native of Jiangsu Province. His large abstract image installations are made using magazines, newspapers and books as media, creating a “tearing” method to produce work. Tearing, depriving, - this is contrary to the customary painting method, the traditional painting is “addition,” adding colors and lines on a piece of white paper, namely doing addition. The method of “tearing” is subtraction. His work is to tear off the extra colors and texts in books and magazines with a lot of images and texts, making them simple lines and letters. Each line is rendered by the removal of surrounding colors; each letter becomes a letter because of the tearing of a lot of texts. In the process, the original image and texts become pieces and scraps of paper. The traditional media, magazine was destroyed and reconstructed by the method of “tearing”, emphasizing the generation of literature and art in the era of the Internet.
"Through my works, I study the social strata, the development of the city and the decline of the countryside, in the light of China's historical development. Equality, Freedom and Individual Rights, which are the basic needs of contemporary Chinese people, are the main topics of my art,” said Li Qiang, “When you look at my work, you see not only a richly depicted abstract landscape! There is a historical panorama of constantly changing Chinese culture.”
