Attila Csorgo
dal 19/9/2013 al 25/10/2013
Segnalato da
19/9/2013
Attila Csorgo
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Shapes in Transition. Combining the media of photography, sculpture, and drawing, the works of Hungarian-born artist offer viewers an introduction to questions of science and technology.
Galerija Gregor Podnar is pleased to announce Attila Csörgőʼs third
solo exhibition in Berlin “Shapes in Transition” featuring
installations, drawings and photographs from the Clock-work series,
and the work Squaring the Circle, the first version of which piece was
presented in dOCUMENTA (13).
Combining the media of photography, sculpture, and drawing, the works
of Hungarian-born artist Attila Csörgő offer viewers an intelligent
and playful introduction to questions of science and technology. The
results are often unexpected, amusing, or even poetic. In long-term
experiments the artist explores branches of science such as kinetics,
optics, or geometry to examine questions of perception; and on this
basis he develops his theories about the construction of reality.
Recent kinetic constructions of the experimental Clock-work series,
Clock-work from 2011 and Clock-work (Made in Poland) from 2012,
continue his examination of light and motion combined. At the
interface of visual arts and science, his work on phenomena of
perception finds its focus in the lemniscate, the figure eight lying
on its side. Both mathematical symbol and poetic shape, the lemniscate
is a symbol of infinity shaped like a horizontal 8. What Csörgő has
built is a 'time machine' which can be read as a sculpture or a three
dimensional drawing, a moving picture or simply a scientific experiment.
‘Squaring the circle’ was originally one of the famous –
unsolvable - mathematical tasks coming from the ancient Greek world.
It fascinated people during centuries until the final conclusion in
the 19th century when mathematicians proved it is unsolvable.
Nowadays, metaphorically, we use this phrase for describing a task
that is impossible to carry out.
Squaring the Circle belies the age-old problem to be solved by making
the impossible possible and turning a circle into a square. This
playful yet complex work creates a square from the shadow of a circle
with the help of a special mirror.
Attila Csörgő was born in 1965 in Budapest, he lives and works in
Warsaw. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Mainz (2012),
the Atelier Calder, Sache (2011), the Wiener Secession, Vienna (2011),
the Kunsthalle Hamburg, MUDAM Luxembourg and Ludwig Museum Budapest
(2009-2011), Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France (2009), and the Museum
Folkwang, Essen (2008). Csörgő has participated in the dOCUMENTA (13)
(2012), the Biennale of Sydney (2008), the Istanbul Biennial (2003),
and the Biennale di Venezia (1999). In 2008, he was granted the Nam
June Paik Award, Europe’s renowned prize for media art.
Image: Magnet Spring, 1991, glass panels, magnets, 100 x 100 x 100 cm
Opening on September 20, from 6 to 9 pm
Galerija Gregor Podnar
Lindenstrasse 35 - D-10969 Berlin
Opening hours
Tue – Sat 11 am – 6 pm