Helen Tóth exhibition

There is a certain collective idea of the forest. Everyone thinks of the same things as a forest: trees, mountains, fresh air. But the actual being of a forest is quite independent of the way we understand what a forest is. Everyone interprets it in their own way.

Helen explores forests from a visual point of view, observing their otherness, visual difference, perceiving shapes, colours, smells, textures, contrasts, compositions and atmospheres.

She focuses on the dialogue between the different branches, which suddenly enter into a state of fusion, they may seem to be strangers to each other – each of them just came from a different corner, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t live together in harmonious symbiosis.

It carries a symbolic message: the act of relocating a specific element to another environment where it coexists seamlessly with the new, with the other. In the works, it replaces the gaze of man with the gaze of a tree – now it is the tree that takes care of the valley and becomes the guardian of the hill. That is why he depicts them in a similar way to how humans are depicted.

The portraitist tries to penetrate the essence of the individual, and Helen tries to understand the trees in the same way. To become the trees, to be thousands of trees at once and to breathe through the thin, densely interwoven fibers of the understory and to experience, to gain the experience of the forest. A selfish desire to reincarnate into nature with the possibility of retaining a human mind. To know, see and feel the happenings that elude us humans, that we cannot experience with our senses, that remain forever hidden from us. We can only imagine it. But imaginations are inaccurate.

The human presence is completely excluded from the paintings, so that at least one place in the world remains out of human reach. The night belongs to the trees and the animals – it’s quite a comforting thought. There is no cutting or shooting at night. His work pays tribute to the trees and plants that grow in spite of the harsh environment, the unpredictability of the weather, the harmful human activity, but still manage to make their way to the surface.

Biography:

Mgr. art. Helen Tóth, *1992, lives in Dunajská Streda and works in Bratislava in Nová Cvernovka. She studied at the Josef Vydra School of Applied Arts in Bratislava from 2007 to 2011 and later, from 2012 to 2016, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the studio of prof. Ivan Csudai and from 2016 to 2018 in the studio of prof. Daniel Fischer. She is a three-time finalist of the VÚB Bank Prize for Painting (2017, 2022 and 2023) and in 2022 she was nominated for the Piero D’Amore E Colore Prize at The Others Art Fair in Turin, Italy. In 2022 she was nominated for the STRABAG Artaward International Prize in Vienna. She was selected by the jury to participate in the Zlín Youth Salon 2024. Her greatest success was her participation in the collective exhibition Belvedere na Hluboké | Let it GROW again! at the Alšův jihočeský gallery, co-organized by the Austrian Belvedere. The exhibition featured artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Rona Pondick, Honoré Daumier, Edmund Gwerk, Liza Lou, Krištof Kintera and others.

Location: Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia
Date: from 25.02.2025 – 30.03.2025

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Admission:

Adults – 10 €
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 € Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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