This is the third presence of TOBE Gallery at UNSEEN Amsterdam.
Featured artists: Máté BARTHA (HU), Juan BRENNER (GT)
Booth #52
Anima Mundi vs. Génesis, an encounter of realities.
Two bodies of work with the same principle, the soul of a society, which is confronting and adopting the contemporary standards and “rules”.
Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi project has the idea to create an upside-down summary of everything we might know about how the world works. Anima Mundi mixes pure observational street photography, with staged photography and installations, all strictly set in urban space. The actuality of his work is the growing desire for a leading thought, a “big plan” in today’s age of parallel truths and fragmented knowledge. Global uncertainty always fuels the appearance of alternative philosophies, and when one can read on the same magazine cover about pandemics and possible dates of complete extinction, the craving for a higher reason is stronger than ever.
For Juan Brenner, the Guatemalan highlands define their identity in so many ways. He is fascinated by the beauty of the region but more than anything by its complex reality. Brenner reaches deeper into a new aesthetic developing up in the mountains, those densely populated towns are a vast source of images, images that document how the new generation understands their origins and are shifting to new trends, especially for their attire, their way of absorbing globalization and the genesis of a new “bourgeoise”. Génesis’ body of work focuses on, a new aesthetic, economics, globalization and the inevitable abandonment of very old practices that once defined Guatemala and its inhabitants as a nation; as a territory.