[artinfo]VIDEOWINEART / DÖRGICSEWINEART

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Pántlika Winehouse

VIDEOWINEART
Contemporary Video Works from Britain
GILBERT & GEORGE, RODERICK BUCHANAN, DAVID WILKINSON, 
RUTH MACLENNAN,
VOLKER EICHELMANN, LISA PRIOR, KATE SMITH, ROSS SINCLAIR, 
RÉNAUD BEZY, SAKI SATOM, MONIKA OECHSLER,
SHAHIN AFRASSIABI, ÓLÖF BJÖRNSDÓTTIR, DOUGLAS GORDON
Open: March 23-24 2003, 10 am - 6 pm

DÖRGICSEWINEART
RODERICK BUCHANAN, DOUGLAS GORDON, KATE SMITH, DAVID 
WILKINSON
DÁNIEL LÁSZLÓ, TAMÁS KOMORÓCZKY, TAMÁS ST.AUBY, FERENC 
VESZELY
Private View: 22. March 2003, 6-9 pm
Address: Pántlika Winehouse, 1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 30/A, T/F: 
3280115, E: uzlet at pantlika-borhaz.hu, www.pantlika-borhaz.hu
Curated by Beáta Veszely
Supported by the Mücsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest and the British 
Council






We are pleased to announce the first Hungarian preview of our project 
VIDEOWINEART and DÖRGICSEWINEART in Budapest in the Pántlika 
Winehouse. A collaboration developed between artist (here curator) 
Beáta Veszely and the Pántlika Winehouse with an aim to create a link 
between the Dörgicse wine and the Hungarian and international 
contemporary art. 

For this project British and Hungarian artists were commissioned to 
make a piece of work for Dörgicse wine bottles. The artist-made wine 
label is a playful experiment and an interesting excursion for both the 
Dörgicse winery and the artists involved. The usually elegant design of 
the labels is transformed into a variety of art works, that both enhance 
yet challenge our expectations. The informative and illustrative 
functions lend a new and other kind of meaning to the outside (bottle) 
and the content (wine). For example questions on art as consumable 
can be raised as well as the questioning of the position of the art object 
in relation to the every day life. The wine bottles in affect are taken
away 
from their normal function and become signifiers for the poetic and 
philosophical, things to muse while the contents are emptied. 

Labels were designed for the very best selection of wines from the 
Northern hills of lake Balaton by the Pántlika Winehouse, such as the 
late-harvested Dörgicse Chardonnay from year 2000, that last year won 
the silver medal at the Hungarian Competition of Wines for 
Celebrations and the ten year old Dörgicse Sauvignon Blanc, dry white 
wine. Bottles were made in an edition of 100, numbered and signed by 
the artists and can be purchased and viewed at the Pántlika 
Winehouse as well as the Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest. This first 
exhibition is planned to be followed by a series of shows. This way a 
specialist wineart collection will be established during the years with 
an aim to place the Dörgicse wine in an artistic context and at the same 
time to support Hungarian contemporary art. 

In connection to the wineart project an exhibition of British based video 
artist’s is also being shown, in the cellar of the 
Pántlika Winehouse. Some of the invited artists are also participating in 
the representative Micro Macro exhibition of contemporary British art in 
the Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest. Other artists work includes 
Gilbert and George, Ross Sinclair and Kate Smith, who are not 
showing in the Micro Macro. The two-hour video program is another 
overview of contemporary video art from the UK. Artists are included 
from a wide range of background, well established and at the 
beginning of their carriers, women, man, English, Scottish and London 
based foreign artists. The medium of the moving image is that binds 
together these pieces within a short program.

VIDEOWINEART and DÖRGICSEWINEART is planned to travel to a 
London venue later this year and in 2004 to Newcastle.



FURTHER INFORMATION
(wine) Dr Zsuzsa Töröcskei, Director General and Botond Facsar, 
Manager, Pántlika Winehouse
1077 Budapest, Dohány utca 30/A, T/F: 3280115, E: 
uzlet at pantlika-borhaz.hu, www.pantlika-borhaz.hu and 
(art) Beáta Veszely, beata at veszely.freeserve.co.uk






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