János Vető Explained

János Vető (born 14 December 1953, Budapest) is a Hungarian visual artist, photographer, video artist, musician, songwriter, singer and composer.[1] He has been involved with non-conformist photo art, visual art and alternative music culture since the late '60s.[2] [3]

Biography

Vető was born in Budapest in 1953. He was a child actor at Madách Theater in Budapest. He has been active in photography, film and music since the late 1960s. In 1962 he met János Baksa Soós, singer of the band Kex. He collaborated with Kex on some of their concerts in 1969-70. He was an intern at the Hungarian News Agency (Hungarian Telegraphic Office) where he worked together with Gergely Molnár, singer of the band Spions. Vető was the photographer, assistant, cameraman, and permanent co-worker of the performance artist Tibor Hajas from 1976 until Hajas's death in 1980. In the '80s, he created paintings, sculpture and installations with the painter Lóránt Méhes Zuzu using the name Zuzu-Vető. He founded the band Trabant with Gábor Lukin and Marietta Méhes in 1981. Vető has been living in Denmark and Sweden since the early '90s. He deals with digital image making, writes lyrics and music, sings, and plays the ukulele and the kaossilator.

Since 1990 he is from time to time collaborating with the Swedish artist Maria Lavman Vetö. They have made several installation- and musicprojects. They are married and are living together.

Career

Vető founded the Apropos Film Photo experimental film and photo studio with his friends around 1966-67 and the art action group KOMMUNART in 1972. His experimental music bands, playing intuitive music, are Kec-Mec, Apropos Filmphoto Cartoonband (Apropó Film Fotó Rajzfilmzenekar) and Hymnus. His first solo photography exhibition, Spárgatárlat, was held at Bercsényi Club in Budapest in 1974.[4] His photographs are considered to be exceptional because of their progressivity and sensitivity.[5] [6]

"...his photographic work that radically challenged the conventions of portraits, self-portraits, and nudes..."[7]

Vető collaborated with the body artist Tibor Hajas. Between 1976 and 1980, as Hajas's photographer, co-worker and friend,[8] Vető participated in the preparation and implementation of Hajas's performances as well as in the creation of works (photo series) based on the performances which were published under both of their names.[9] These works were featured in the Central Pavilon, Giardini at the 57th Venice Biennale at the invitation of the chief curator, Christine Macel.[10]

Vető founded "postmodernist social-impressionist neo-barbaric"[11] art with painter Lóránt Méhes Zuzu[12] [13] in 1981. They created drawings, paintings, sculpture and textile works using the name Zuzu-Vető. They applied markers, coloured pencils, brushes and spray and decorated their paintings (Two Hearts are a Couple, 1983) and textile works (Work Flag and Love Flag) with beads, feathers and various everyday objects. Stones, bones and transistors were applied on their sculptures (Űrkőkorszaki szoborportrék/Cellar Statue portraits from the Space-Stone Age), and they named their extremely colourful installations made by using blue vitriol and powder paint as "gardens" (Űrkőkorszaki pinceszoborkert/Basement Sculpture Garden from the Space-Stone Age, 1982, Szentendre, Vajda Lajos Studio). Each of their solo exhibitions is an installation that consists of their works and impromptu sculptures, their personal belongings as well as found objects (Tibeti Őszi Tábor/Tibet Autumn Camp, 1981, Budapest, Young Artists Club; Új zászlók, új szelek/New Flags, New Winds 1983, Budapest, Young Artists Club).

Vető founded the band Trabant with Gábor Lukin and Marietta Méhes in 1981, providing the script ideas and the characters for film director and screenwriter János Xantus' film Eskimo Woman Feels Cold. His other ensembles/groups: Malter és Vödör (Mortar and Bucket), Gagarin Pilótazenekar (Gagarin Pilot Band), Európa Kiadó. He founded I.M.A. (International Music Association) with Ivan E. Vincze in Copenhagen in 1998.[14]

Since the '90s Vető has also been dealing with digital music and digital image making. He creates digital prints and videos using the name NahTe (Pixelvideos).[15] One of his favorite materials is the bubble wrap used for packaging that he adopts as a base for paintings, sculptures, photos and videos.[16] [17]

In the summer of 2018 Vető created the Jó idő (Good Time) album with the members of the band Balaton.[18]

Between 2007-2019, he created the Duo, Fluo Trio series from his digital images using the iron printing technique, the pastel and zinc painting, the scanning and the Ferrari printing.[19]

The first two iron print paintings, IPP (Iron Print Painting), were made in 2013, followed by a large series of paintings and several videos in 2020-2021.[20]

He publishes his videos on his own YouTube video channel NahTe53. [21]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Discography

Filmography

Books

Writings

Awards

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: János Vető - Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest.
  2. News: Vető János - artportal.hu. artportal.hu. 2018-11-11. hu.
  3. Web site: Diemar. Michael. 2021-04-21. The Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde. 2021-04-21. The Classic 2021/5. 53-68..
  4. Web site: Bercsényi Klub - VETŐ János kiállítása.
  5. Web site: Állami kitüntetések a nemzeti ünnepen – 2010. 2010-03-16. artportal.hu. hu.
  6. Web site: János Vetö. 2021-04-22. THE PHOTOGALLERY. en-US.
  7. Web site: Paula Ely: János Vető NahTe. 2018-08-01. Photoculture.
  8. Web site: Tibor Hajas: Töredékek az "új fotóról"-ról. 1977. 2003-05-24. hu.
  9. Web site: Emese Kürti:János Vető: Vigil (in English). 2016-08-08. acbgaleria.hu.
  10. Web site: Hajas Tibor a Velencei Biennálén – Villáminterjú Christine Macel főkurátorral . 2022-09-02 . Ludwig Múzeum Blog.
  11. Web site: Forián-Szabó, Noémi: Nyugi, nyugi a szociálimpesszionista neobarbár kerék forog, Artmagazin, 2006. artmagazin.hu. hu.
  12. Web site: Artportal: Méhes Lóránt Zuzu.
  13. Web site: Simon Zsuzsa: Méhes Lóránt Zuzu a festő. Balkon 2008/6. 10-21..
  14. Web site: Youtube: I.M.A.. .
  15. Web site: NahTe videohaiku, est.hu, 2008 (Hungarian). 2008-04-27. est.hu. hu.
  16. Web site: Balázs, Kata: Színezett régi levegõ, Balkon, 2003. balkon.art. hu.
  17. Söderholm. Carolina. 2018-11-10. En ungersk bubblare. János Vető aka NahTe: Colored old air, Höörs konsthall, t o m 18/11.. Sydsvenskan. sv.
  18. Web site: Soundcloud: Tapintat.
  19. Web site: Noémi . Szerző: FORIÁN SZABÓ . FORIÁN SZABÓ Noémi: Vető János NahTe: Duo-Trio-Fluo . 2022-09-02 . Balkon . hu-HU.
  20. Web site: Vető János: Iron Print Paintings . 2022-09-02 . Artmagazin . hu.
  21. Web site: NahTe53 - YouTube . 2022-09-02 . www.youtube.com.
  22. Web site: Zuzu-Vető: New flags new winds, 1983_Artpool.
  23. Web site: United Dream of Night's_Sound CD 101_Artpool.
  24. Web site: Johnny gitár. NahTe53 youtube channel.
  25. Web site: Sound CD 347 Artpool.
  26. Web site: NETRAF-music.
  27. Web site: János Vető: A fény éjszakái (Hajas Tiborról)/ Nights of Light (About Tibor Hajas); in: Orpheus, 1999/21.. inaplo.hu. hu. 2018-11-15.
  28. Web site: János Vető NahTe: Photoessay, 1999 (in Hungarian, in English). c3.hu. 2018-11-15.
  29. Book: NahTe, (János Vető, Prince Kína) . ColourOld Air. NahTe presents the Photographic Works of János Vető and Prince Kína on Digital Prints + a Few Original Silver Gelatins. A catalogue and CD-ROM that accompanied an exhibition held in Hungarian House of Photography (Mai Manó House) Budapest between 24 May and 8 July 2003. . Hungarian House of Photography-Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences . 2003 . 963 210 3785 . Budapest . 9-15..
  30. Web site: NahTe: Neon mese / Neon tale, 2013. 1 March 2013. galerianeon.blogspot.com. hu. 11 November 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023080138/http://galerianeon.blogspot.com/2013/03/feltamadtunk-uj-kepek-zuzu-veto-mehes.html. 23 October 2018. dead.
  31. Web site: Vető János NahTe. acb Galéria. hu. 2018-11-13.
  32. Book: Sándor, Szilágyi. Neo-Avant-Garde Trends in Hungarian Art Photography 1965-1984. Art+Text. 2017. 978-963-12-8293-1. Budapest.
  33. Web site: Galántai, György - Beke, László about János Vető. artpool.hu. hu.
  34. Web site: Vető János. Rózsa T.. Endre. fotoművészet.net. hu. Fotoművészet.
  35. Web site: Forián Szabó. Noémi. Vető János NahTe: Duo-Trio-Fluo. balkon.art. 2020.
  36. Web site: 2021-05-10. "Szerintem a digitális fénykép egyedül képernyőn életképes..." – beszélgetés Vető Jánossal. 2021-05-11. PUNKT. hu.
  37. Web site: Vető János: Iron Print Paintings. 2021-09-20. Artmagazin.
  38. News: Söderholm. Carolina. 2021-09-25. Hä är konsten du inte ska missa. Carolina Söderholm guidar till utställningar värda ett besök.. sv. Sydsvenskan.
  39. Web site: Forián Szabó . Noémi . 2023-02-02 . Domain. An interview with Dániel Erdély, Maria Lavman Vető and János Vető . 2023-04-27 . ÚjMűvészet/Art today .
  40. Web site: 2024-04-27 . Bercsényi lemegy az aluljáróba . 2024-05-28 . enbudapestem.hu . hu.