How much history, experience and identity-forming search is hidden in 1285.3 km²?
Valéria Sóváradi and Anna Fabricius spent months in Rome on a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Rome. Although 25 years have passed between the creation of the two materials, the geographic and cultural heritage of the source has not changed, but the two approaches are very different. Rome is an inescapable point of reference.
Looking back on Sóváradi’s work, we can see how his experiences have influenced him in the long term. He defines the experiences he had there as a new beginning in his own art, which still influences his painting today with its formal variety and proportions.
Fabricius’ work questions the fragmentary aspect of the momentary and the importance of the invisible. It is interesting to note that both obscurity and invisibility are a significant part of both artistic representations, but while Fabricius’ paintings, due to their fragmentation, do not show the exact location of the absence, in Sóváradi’s works the obscurity, the partial absence of a given view, shows exactly the visible state of Rome at the time.