(Magyar) FKSE Új Tagok vol.1 – A kivétel eszi meg a szabályt
| 2017. Feb. 14. | 19:00 |
Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó: IGNORANCES
| 2016. Dec. 14. | 20:00 |
Opening:
2016. december 14. (szerda), 20h
Opening speech:
Tamás Seregi, esthete
Curator:
Ferenc Margl
On view:
2016. december 15-22 és 27-30 közt
Opening hours:
15-18h
Special thanks to:
András Heszky
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IGNORANCES
The current selection of the works of Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó disrupt the monolith truth definition which is traditionally associated with experience and acquainted knowledge. Meanwhile the enigmatic compositions of the exhibition give examples for the activities such as reconstruction and attribution of meaning, which activities are not useless but they cannot produce certain success.
The method that is inquisitive about the relation between knowledge and ignorance are not a new phenomenon in the works of Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó. The one and a half year earlier installed A grey life (Recollection, OFF-Biennale Budapest) and its private history oriented research project was focusing on the overlapping knowledge-possibilities that are contoured by the manifold readings and truths. More precisely this research highlighted the “real” history which cannot be reconstructed, and which is not blurred by the lack of information but by the divergence of the accessible information.
The exhibited works are not based on such explicitly personal fundament as the previous examples. These new works are related with more cold and universal experiences. As immediate antecedent can be named the In between grids exhibition (Plusmínusnula Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia), that showed his interest on the grid motive which plays a significant role in the experience and the systematization of knowledge.
Semi-understandable coding systems, seemingly fitting fragments and intentionally disarranged and so uncertain representations are in the focus of the exhibited works. Parallel to the epistemological questions the works constantly make us to face with undeniable materiality of the objects and compilations – he also deals with the problems of transparency and construction on the level of material.
Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó simultaneously participate at the Interferences group exhibiton of the Trafó Gallery. The exhibited installation is the outcome of the same research but with different accents than the works of the Ignorances.
TAXOGRAPHY
| 2016. Dec. 1. | 20:00 |
Artists:
ALBERT Ádám
ZILAHI Anna
Opening speech:
GADÓ Flóra, curator
Curated by:
ŐZE Eszter
Graphic design:
HOFFMANN Tamás Boldizsár, SZABÓ Andrea
Special thanks to:
KOVÁCS Gyula
MIKÓ Bálint
“Back then, said Pater Zea, the Academy had sent out their three best surveyors, La Condamine, Bouguer, and Godin, to establish the length of the meridian of the equator. The hope had been, if only on aesthetic grounds, to disprove Newton’s ugly theory that the earth was flattening itself by its own rotation. Pater Zea stared fixedly at the table for a few seconds. An enormous insect landed on his forehead. Instinctively Bonpland reached out his hand, stopped, and then pulled it back again. To measure the equator, Pater Zea continued. In other words to draw a line where no line had been before. Had they looked around outside? Lines happened somewhere else. His bony arm pointed to the window, the bushes, the plants covered in swarms of insects. Not here! Lines happened everywhere, said Humboldt. They were an abstraction. Wherever there was space as such, there were lines.”
― Daniel Kehlmann: Measuring the World
The exhibition aims to present a critical interpretation of classification by examining the possibility of personal approaches to taxonomy. Ádám Albert’s and Anna Zilahi’s exhibited works build on the 19th century’s cultural historical framework; they question the ideological constructedness of systematisation through the objects, compositional principles, and a related sound piece from the closing decades of the great geographical discoveries as well as the era of the forming of nation states.
Ádám Albert builds a personal classification system in which he renders found objects next to both his older and newer works. In his artistic approach he focuses on cultural sharing, that is, he reflects on the various aspects of knowledge producing tools and methods, taking into account their changing forms in historical time and geographical locus. He scrutinizes these socio-political questions indirectly – through the field of aesthetics – in his works. Therefore, he does not only point to certain moments of the past, but to the complex interrelations, co-existences, and the not necessarily evident linkages of knowledge systems and knowledge production.
The selection of objects presented examines the functioning of taxonomies through the constructedness of knowledge production. Albert’s found and created objects seem to be a part of a scientific toolkit: a 19th century demonstration tool, old notes taken out again, and objects serving the systematisation of the objects needed for scientific activity. These objects can be regarded as the pictorial metaphors of the examined topic and the 19th century’s framework. The artworks evoke a net of references referring to the main questions of the obtainability and canonisation of knowledge, the formation of its hierarchical ordering, and the way it is organised into a system.
Anna Zilahi’s participation-based works deal with the question an individual’s representability. Her work primarily focuses on the medium of sounds; however, her literary activities and language-oriented thinking also influence her artistic approach. The Unavoidable Staccato of Heimweh is a four channel sound installation based on a conceptual music piece formulating system criticism by relativizing the tonality system. By subjectivizing the sounds within the “second Hungarian national anthem”, the Szózat, Zilahi’s work looks to deconstruct the dominant nationalist take embodied by the music piece.
Zilahi examines the relations between the notions of home, motherland, homesickness, and nationalism. The installation is based on a conceptual music piece which is a reinterpretation of the Szózat. The concept is built on the intention to liberate the sounds from the tonality system, since tonality can be regarded as a social construct in music. Taken out of the tonality system, the sounds are subjectivized by having participants – including both Hungarian and foreign trained singers and laypersons – sing the sounds of the original piece without being given the correct pitch. Anna Zilahi examines the question whether it is possible and if so, in what way, to interpret and experience patriotism in a plural manner.
Using various forms of media, such as found objects or sound, Ádám Albert and Anna Zilahi present a geopolitical unconscious built on fairly similar foundations. In their world shaped by geographical relations, political notions, canonic forms of pictorial and musical representation, they elaborate on the depiction of the contemporary space in which we currently exist. The exhibition aims to question: To what extent do all systems have to be regarded as social-constructs? And is it possible to create personal classification systems, or will chaos sustain at the end of these futile attempts?