Countercurrent

About this artwork

This work shows the city of Budapest on a rainy day around 1970. Everything belongs to that time, the cars, the bus, the people waiting to cross the street, their clothes, but suddenly a woman appears on the scene with an umbrella protecting herself from the rain, with out of date clothing and accessories showing an anachronism. The ancient and the modern in contrast. The woman who represents the present and the future walks firmly and freely forward, down the middle of the street, wanting to escape from the past. It is a work endowed with a lot of movement and dynamism that captivates the viewer. Colors play an important role since they serve to locate elements in time, using grays, blues and broken for elements of the past and bright colors to identify the present time.