György Szász - Karmacy

"Over the last few years I have been pre­oc­cu­pi­ed with works that draw upon con­fu­s­ed as­so­ci­a­tions, mis­un­der­stand­ings, and mis­he­ard pi­e­ces of in­for­ma­ti­on. They stem from mis­re­ad texts, in­comp­le­te sen­ten­ces, or mi­s­in­terp­re­ted vi­su­al ex­pe­ri­en­ces, but they can also be seen as the start­ing points for new jokes. I crea­ted pi­e­ces that I called 'for­ced ob­jects'; th­ro­ugh ab­surd com­bi­na­tions of dif­fe­rent ob­jects, they rep­re­sent what are often us­eless inst­ru­ments, alt­ho­ugh hy­pot­he­ti­cally such cre­a­tions could be con­ce­i­ved as us­e­ful ob­jects. With simp­le met­hods I try to crea­te inter-ge­ne­ric pa­rap­her­na­lia for the mind," writes György Szász. The young ar­tist comp­le­ted the DLA prog­ramme at the Hun­ga­ri­an Uni­ver­sity of Fine Art in 2003, but his works have been cir­cu­lat­ing the con­tem­por­ary art scene for years. His la­test works, as well as their early an­te­ce­dents, are now on disp­lay at the Do­rottya Gal­lery. These cha­rac­te­r­is­tic ob­jects, which have been une­art­hed from their every-day exis­ten­ces to trans­cend their nor­mal fra­mes of re­fe­ren­ce, in­vi­te spec­ta­tors to en­gage in a game of ever-new as­so­ci­a­tions, over­tur­ning our world's cus­to­ma­ry modes of re­cept­ion.

The ex­hi­bit­ion will be held at 6pm on Tu­es­day 14th Feb­ru­ary 2006, and will be ope­ned by art his­to­ri­an Jó­zsef Kész­man.

The ex­hi­bit­ion and the con­nec­ting ca­ta­lo­gue were sup­port­ed by the Na­ti­o­nal Cul­t­u­ral Fund and the Mu­ni­ci­pal Govern­ment of Bu­da­pest, Cul­t­u­ral Co­mit­te.
2006. February 14. - March 18.

Gallery Dorottya

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