Alexandra Hegedűs

Brushless strokes exhibition

September 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
‍Curator
: Blanka Bán

The series is inspired by the artist's idea that there are two major groups of abstract painting; abstract painting that relies on free gestures and momentary intuition, and abstract painting that relies on precision rather than chance, and is based on pre-designed, fixed forms. While his own works tend to fall into the latter group, he gives the illusion of belonging to the former. By his own admission, he finds it amusing to confuse his viewers, as the human brain basically tends to select and simplify visual information, trying to give a simple answer to the question "what am I seeing here?".

Alexandra Hegedűs - introduction

Alexandra Hegedűs was born in 1991 in Csongrád and grew up in Szeged. She first studied painting, drawing, textile art and art history at the Tömörkény István Secondary School of Art. After high school he wanted to learn the special genre of textile sculpture, but due to the lack of such a home opportunity he enrolled at the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs.

At the university he studied painting, art history, art anatomy, art psychology and other subjects. He spent a semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, mainly in Pécs, Budapest and some small towns in neighbouring countries. She won third place in the painting section of the National Students' Conference, the Fundamenta Amadeus Program scholarship in 2013 and 2014, the University's Ildikó Kriszbacher scholarship in 2015, and finally the New National Excellence Program scholarship in 2016.

Alexandra started experimenting with unconventional materials in her painting with the encouragement of her teachers and her master, Peter Somody, and her own curious nature, which she continues to do to this day. Her fine arts degree, on the other hand, was a thesis on textile sculpture. She then studied art socialisation and museum education at the Faculty of Teacher Education, working with the Janus Pannonius Museum and some local schools. Alexandra exhibited her first mature works under the title Alak-Anyag at the Reg Frühstücki Bár in Pécs in 2017.

The following summer she travelled to the United States with her husband. During her two years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she worked as a teaching assistant and volunteered at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She had the opportunity to exhibit her work in the Riverwest Art Walk, an event that has been running since the 1970s.

In 2019, after a few months in Milan, where she had an exhibition at M.A.D.S Gallery, she returned to Hungary and settled in Budapest. Since September 2021, she has been a museum educator at the Hungarian National Gallery.

At the end of 2019, abstraction took over in her painting, with material and form becoming the main protagonists of her work, as her technical experiments led her to find figuration ultimately futile and limiting. Although his painting has taken several seemingly completely different directions over the last ten years, his ideas have always been rooted in his interest in illusion.

His most recent works show at first glance giant brushstrokes following simple compositional schemes (circle, spiral, X, straight and curved lines, zigzag, etc.) that could be considered gesture painting. However, on closer inspection, we discover that we have been deceived; there are no free-hand gestural brushstrokes here. Alexandra builds up the paintings layer by layer, using a carefully planned and painstakingly long process of cut-out stencils, acrylic spray and a mixture of various coloured varnishes and adhesives. Observing the details, we can discover the play of covering and translucency of the different layers. The series is inspired by the artist's idea that there are essentially two broad categories of abstract painting; abstract painting that relies on free gestures and momentary intuition, and abstract painting that relies on precision rather than chance, and is based on pre-designed, fixed forms. While his own works tend to fall into the latter group, he gives the illusion of belonging to the former. By his own admission, he finds it amusing to confuse his viewers, as the human brain basically tends to select and simplify visual information, trying to give a simple answer to the question "what am I seeing here?".

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Drinks

APERITIFS

Zonin Prosecco Special Cuvée 0,1l
2 250 Ft
Nagy-Somló-Kreinbacher Brut Classic 0,1l
2 800 Ft
Champagne-Philipponat Royal Reserve 0,1l
6 600 Ft
Tokaji-Harsányi Szamorodni dry/dry 0,1l
2 500 Ft
Aperol Spritz
3 850 Ft
Hugo
3 850 Ft
Negroni
4 850 Ft
Kir Royal
3 250 Ft

Soft drinks

Coca Cola, Coca Cola Zero - 0,20 l
990 Ft
San Benedetto Limone - 0,33 l
1 400 Ft
San Benedetto Clementina - 0,33 l
1 400 Ft
Thomas Hanry classic premium tonic - 0,20 l
2 000 Ft

COLD DRINKS

Homemade iced tea

0,4 l

1 750 Ft
Espresso tonic
1 850 Ft
Iced coffee

0,4 l

1 750 Ft
Iced Matcha latte

0,4 l

1 850 Ft

Lemonades

Classic

4 dl

1 950 Ft
Passion fruit

4 dl

2 250 Ft
Strawberry-Basil

4 dl

2 250 Ft
Raspberry-Mint

4 dl

2 250 Ft
Elderflower-Cucumber

4 dl

2 250 Ft
Watermelon

4 dl

2 250 Ft

G & T

Hexagon Roku - Thomas Henry
4 850 Ft
History - Thomas Henry
4 850 Ft
Malfy - Thomas Henry
4 850 Ft
Legendary Tanqueray - Thomas Henry
4 850 Ft
Charmed Hendrick's - Thomas Henry
5 450 Ft
Seven Hills Tokaj - Thomas Henry
4 850 Ft

WATER

San Benedetto Mineral water - 0,75 l

Sparkling, Still

1 850 Ft
Nordac water - 0,75 l

Sparkling, Still

1 550 Ft

Classic cocktails

Aperol Spritz
3 650 Ft
Limoncello spritz
3 850 Ft
Hugo Spritz
3 650 Ft
Per Se Fizz
3 650 Ft
Portonic - portonic royal oporto dry white

 

3 250 Ft
Original Mojito
3 250 Ft
Cuba Libre
3 250 Ft
Old Fashioned
3 250 Ft
Espresso Martini
3 250 Ft
Vanilla passion Martini
4 250 Ft
Margarita Sierra antigou plata
4 250 Ft
Peroni Nastro Azzurro

0,33 l

1 650 Ft
Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.00%

0,33 l

1 650 Ft

Coffee-Tea

Ristretto

 

890 Ft
Espresso

 

890 Ft
Americano

 

950 Ft
Cortado

 

1 050 Ft
Cappuccino

 

1 200 Ft
Doppio

 

1 450 Ft
Flat white

 

1 650 Ft
Caffé Latte
1 450 Ft
Caramel latte
1 650 Ft
Vanilla Latte
1 650 Ft
Macaron Latte
1 650 Ft
Matcha Latte
1 650 Ft
Irish coffee

 

2 150 Ft
Melange
1 800 Ft

TEA

Imperial Earl Grey
1 450 Ft
English Breakfast
1 450 Ft
Summer fruits
1 450 Ft
Himalayas Green
1 450 Ft
Manila Mango
1 450 Ft
Chamomile Meadow
1 450 Ft
Bavarian Mint
1 450 Ft

Moktélok

Yuzu fizz

yuzu, lime, grapefruit, soda

2 250 Ft
Tropical Sour

pineapple, lime, passion fruit, banana, basil

2 250 Ft
Strawberry Kiss

strawberry, lime, tonic, vanilla, mint

2250 Ft

Sparkling wines - Champagnes

Veneto - Zonin Spumante Brut Prosecco Cuvée 1820
 

1 dl

2 300 Ft

1 bottle

15 500 Ft
Nagy-Somló - Kreinbacher Brut Classic
 

1 dl

2 900 Ft

1 bottle

19 900 Ft
Champagne - Philipponnat Royale Réserve
 

1 dl

6 600 Ft

1 bottle

44 000 Ft
Asti - Martini Asti Spumante

1 bottle

15 600 Ft
Veneto - Martini Prosecco

1 bottle

15 600 Ft
Tokaj - Sauska Extra Brut

1 bottle

19 900 Ft
Kárásztelek - Carassia Blanc De Blancs Brut

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Tokaj - Béres Tokaji Hárslevelű Nature Brut 2019

1 bottle

22 000 Ft
Nagy-Somló - Kreinbacher Égosite 2017

1 bottle

32 000 Ft
Lombardia - Ca'del Bosco Cuvée Prestige Franciacorta 45th DOCG

1 bottle

34 500 Ft
Champagne - Champagne Philipponnat Non Dosé

1 bottle

44 000 Ft
Champagne - Ernest Remy Extra-brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru V 2011

1 bottle

52 000 Ft
Champagne - Pascal Agrapart "7 Cru" Brut

1 bottle

49 900 Ft
Champagne - Pol Roger Brut Réserve

1 bottle

55 000 Ft
Champagne - Billecart Salmon Brut Rosé

1 bottle

69 000 Ft
Champagne - Philipponnat Grand Blanc 2013/2014

1 bottle

69 500 Ft
   
Champagne - Philipponnat "Cuvee 1522" Extra Brut 2014/2015/2016

1 bottle

99 000 Ft
Champagne - Charles Heidsieck Brut Millesime 2012/2013

1 bottle

96 500 Ft
Champagne - Taittinger Comtes Blanc de Blancs Brut

1 bottle

165 000 Ft
Champagne - Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill Brut 2015

1 bottle

249 000 Ft
Nagy-Somló - Kreinbacher MAGNUM Classic Brut

1 bottle

45 000 Ft
Nagy-Somló - Kreinbacher MAGNUM Prestige Brut

1 bottle

55 000 Ft

White wines

Sardinia - Cantina Mesa Giunco Vermentino Piccolo (0,5l) 2020

1 bottle

11 000 Ft
Badacsony - Váli Pincészet Olaszrizling 2020 / 2021
 

1 dl

1 650 Ft

1 bottle

10 500 Ft
Tokaj - Gizella Pince Cuvée 2022/2023
 

1 dl

1 800 Ft

1 bottle

11 000 Ft
Eger - Kovács Nimród Battonage Chardonnay 2022
 

1 dl

2 600 Ft

1 bottle

16 900 Ft
Marlborough - Whitehaven Sauvignon Blanc 2023
 

1 dl

2 750 Ft

1 bottle

18 500 Ft
Tokaji - Harsányi Szamorodni száraz 2015
 

1 dl

2 500 Ft

1 bottle

11 500 Ft
Mátrai Kerekes Hárslevelű 2018

1 bottle

9 500 Ft
Eger - Petrény Tramini 2020                   

1 bottle

8 500 Ft
Eger - Gál Lajos Narancsbor 2020                   

1 bottle

9 500 Ft
Etyek - Haraszthy Sauvignon Blanc 2023

1 bottle

10 500 Ft
Venezie - Famiglia Boron-Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie DOC 2022

1 bottle

10 500 Ft
Balatonfüred- Csopak - Somoskői Juhfark 2016

1 bottle

10 600 Ft
Balatonfüred- Csopak - Somoskői Rajnai Rizling 2017

1 bottle

10 600 Ft
Eger - Gál Lajos Kamravölgy Grand Superior Egri Csillag 2019/2021

1 bottle

12 500 Ft
Tokaji Harsányi Megyer Furmint 2021

1 bottle

12 500 Ft
Pannonhalma - Archabbey Prior (Rhenish Riesling) 2022 / 2023

1 bottle

16 000 Ft
Nagy-Somlói Tornai Top Selection Aranyhegy Juhfark 2021

1 bottle

13 500 Ft
Badacsony - Váli Pincészet Ágyúsok Kéknyelű Selection 2019 / 2022

1 bottle

18 000 Ft
Tokaj - Royal Tokaji Szent Tamás Furmint 2018

1 bottle

18 500 Ft
Tokaj - Royal Betsek Lime Leaf 2021

1 bottle

17 000 Ft
Tokaj - Demeter Zoltán Szerelmi Hárslevelű 2019

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Rheingau - Peter Jakob Kühn Riesling Rheinschiefer 2021 / 2022

1 bottle

19 900 Ft
Tokaj - Béres Tokaji Lőcse Furmint 2016

1 bottle

22 000 Ft
Tokaj - Victor Juliet Furmint Bomboly 2018

1 bottle

22 500 Ft
Wachau - Prague Green Veltliner Federspiel Hinter Der Burg 2022 

1 bottle

23 000 Ft
Burgenland - Nittnaus Freudshofer Chardonnay 2018

1 bottle

22 700 Ft
Burgundy -Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin Chablis 2021

1 bottle

26 500 Ft
Burgundy - Domaine Besson Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons 2019

1 bottle

28 500 Ft
Loire - Domaine de Saint-Pierre Sancere 2020

1 bottle

28 500 Ft
Eger - St Andrea Mária 2021 / 2022

1 bottle

34 000 Ft
Alsace - Domaine Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Heimbourg 2020

1 bottle

36 000 Ft
Tokaj - Szepsy Úrágya Furmint 2020

1 bottle

34 500 Ft
Wachau - Prague Riesling "Smaragd" Ried Achleiten 2022

1 bottle

45 000 Ft
Burgundy - Vincent Girardin Meursault Blanc Vignes 2020

1 bottle

58 000 Ft
Burgundy - Vincent Girardin Chassagne Montrachet Les VVignes 2018

1 bottle

79 500 Ft
Toscana - Bibi Graetz Testamatta Bianco 2022

1 bottle

72 500 Ft
Burgundy - Vincent Girardin Puligny Montrachet 2016

1 bottle

114 000 Ft

Red wines

Portugal - Royal Oporto 20 years old Tawny
 

6 cl

4 500 Ft
Erdély - Recas La Putere Fekete Leányka 2020
 

1 dl

1 900 Ft

1 bottle

12 000 Ft
Ménes - Balla Géza Kolna Kadarka 2021
 

1 dl

2 000 Ft

1 bottle

13 000 Ft
Eger- Stumpf Pincészet Nagy - Eged Bikavér 2018
 

1 dl

2 400 Ft

1 bottle

15 000 Ft
Rioja - La Rioja Alta Reserva Alberdi 2018/2019
 

1 dl

3 100 Ft

1 bottle

21 000 Ft
Veneto - De Stefani Solér 2019 / 2020
 

1 dl

3 200 Ft

1 bottle

22 000 Ft
Puglia - Tinazzi Imperio Primitivo Di Manduria 2022
 

1 bottle

27 000 Ft
Sopron - Steigler Soproni Prémium Kékfrankos 2019 / 2020

1 bottle

12 700 Ft
Eger - Gróf Buttler Pinot Noir 2017

1 bottle

12 500 Ft
Villány - Jackfall Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

1 bottle

15 000 Ft
Szekszárd - Takler Szenta - Bergi Kékfrankos 2019

1 bottle

14 000 Ft
Mendoza - TREZ Vivante Malbec 2020

1 bottle

18 500 Ft
Villány - Bock BV Cuvée 2020

1 bottle

18 500 Ft
Villány - Mayer Kopár Cuvée 2017/2018

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Eger - Petrény Cabernet Franc Superior 2013

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Villány - Agancsos Capitalis Villányi Franc 2018

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Villány - Agancsos Capitalis Villányi Franc 2018

1 bottle

19 500 Ft
Eger - Gróf Buttler Syrah Grand Selection 2017

1 bottle

21 500 Ft
Bordeaux - Château Lanessan 2019

1 bottle

21 900 Ft
Tuscany - Avignonesi Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2019

1 bottle

24 500 Ft
Villány - Jackfall Grand Cuvée 2009 / 2012 / 2016

1 bottle

22 500 Ft
Szekszárd - Heimann Barbár 2019 / 2020

1 bottle

25 500 Ft
Eger - St Andrea Merengő Bikavér Superior IGT 2020

1 bottle

27 500 Ft
Szekszárd - Takler Primarius Merlot 2017

1 bottle

33 500 Ft
Villány - Gere Attila Solus Merlot 2020

1 bottle

33 500 Ft
Canterbury - Pegasus Bay Pinot Noir 2018/2020

1 bottle

38 500 Ft
Eger - St Andrea Igazán Egri Bikavér Grand Superior 2016

1 bottle

38 000 Ft
Villány - Sauska Villányi Franc Premium 2017

1 bottle

38 000 Ft
Somló - Kreinbacher Syrah 2017

1 bottle

43 500 Ft
Burgundy - Domaine Vincent Girardin Volnay Vieilles Vignes 2015/2016

1 bottle

46 500 Ft
Tuscany - Avignonesi Desiderio 2019

1 bottle

45 000 Ft
Adelaide Hills - Longview Shiraz The Piece 2017

1 bottle

41 000 Ft
Eger - Kovács Nimród Grand Blue 2017

1 bottle

45 000 Ft
Piedmont - Paolo Conterno Barolo Riva Del Bric DOCG 2017 / 2019

1 bottle

46 500 Ft
Piedmont - Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco 2017 / 2019

1 bottle

39 500 Ft
Mendoza - Miguel Escorihuela Gascon "DON" Malbec 2020

1 bottle

43 900 Ft
Rioja - La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 2015 / 2016

1 bottle

46 000 Ft
Bordeaux - Dame de Montrose, Saint-Estèphe 2015

1 bottle

55 000 Ft
Veneto - Cesari "Bosan" Amarone Della Valpolicella 2011 / 2015

1 bottle

62 500 Ft
Napa Valley - Inglenook "1882 Niebeum Estate" Cabernet 2016

1 bottle

65 000 Ft
Toscana- Bibi Graetz Testamatta Rosso IGT 2020

1 bottle

72 500 Ft
 Colchagua Valley - Clos Apalta 2018/2019

1 bottle

125 000 Ft
Oregon - Antica Terra Pinot Noir Botanica 2017

1 bottle

114 500 Ft
Oregon - Terra Pinot Noir Ceras 2018

1 bottle

114 500 Ft
Rhone - Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2009 / 2018

1 bottle

115 000 Ft
Burgundy - Domaine J. Grivot Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 2014

1 bottle

115 000 Ft
Chile - Chadwick Mondavi Sena 2009

1 bottle

155 000 Ft
Tuscany - Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2017/2019

1 bottle

162 000 Ft
Tuscany - Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino 2016 / 2018

1 bottle

175 000 Ft
Toscana – Ornellaia Masseto 2011

1 bottle

695 000 Ft

Rosé wines

Szekszárd - Vida Tündérrózsa Rosé 2023
 

1 dl

1 400 Ft

1 bottle

8 000 Ft
Provance - Château D'Esclans Whispering Angel Rosé 2022

1 bottle

20 400 Ft

Dessert wines

Tokaj - Saint Thomas Aszú 2009

0,375l

55 000 Ft
Tokaj - Béres Tokaj Esszencia 2008

0,25l

135 000 Ft
Tokaj - Royal Tokaj Sweet Samorodni 2018

0,1 l

2 500 Ft

1 bottle

11 000 Ft
Tokaj - Harsányi Winery Princess (yellow musk grape) 2021

1 bottle

8 500 Ft
Tokaj - Royal Tokaji Aszú 5 puttonyos 2017

1 bottle

16 500 Ft
Tokaj - Royal Tokaji 6 puttonyos Aszú Honey Mály 2017

1 bottle

65 000 Ft

Lemonades

Burrata, tomatoes, pesto, focaccia (1,7,8)
3 500 Ft
Anti pasti grilled marinated vegetables cold (12)
3 500 Ft
Vitello tonnato cooked veal, tuna sauce, capers (3,4,7,12)
3 550 Ft