Parti
dal 28/9/2001 al 15/12/2001
Segnalato da
28/9/2001
Parti
La Galerie, Montpellier
The exhibition Parti pris is part of the Magy'art Hungarian season. For it, Ami Barak and Judith Angel have joined forces to show the work of three Budapest-based artists-Gábor Bakos, Gábor Gerhes and Antal Lakner-in Montpellier. An implicit message informs the work of all three, regardless of their differences, needless to say. This closely allied line of thinking has probably been fuelled by the far-reaching political changes that have occurred in Hungary and, more broadly, throughout the whole of eastern Europe in the past ten years.
The exhibition Parti pris is part of the Magy'art Hungarian season. For it,
Ami Barak and Judith Angel* have joined forces to show the work of
three Budapest-based artists-Gábor Bakos, Gábor Gerhes and Antal
Lakner-in Montpellier. An implicit message informs the work of all three,
regardless of their differences, needless to say. This closely allied line
of
thinking has probably been fuelled by the far-reaching political changes
that have occurred in Hungary and, more broadly, throughout the whole
of eastern Europe in the past ten years. In this context of waning
ideologies, and the fall of the wall, these artists wittily broach the
problematical connections between reality and utopia.
It may be current practice to say that ideaologies are running out of
steam and capital is taking over society, but the fact is that the future
still belongs to whose who imagine it. More than ever, in the face of
present-day disillusionment, people need ideals in order to project
themselves into future space. And with an attitude that is as critical as it
it metaphorical, artists are managing to steer us towards new moorings
that are at once necessary and fortifying.
* Judit Angel is curator of the Mücsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest
image: G. Gerhes
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