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26/3/2004

Attila Csorgo

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Platonic Love

Attila Csörgö (b 1965) is one of the most prominent and individual younger artists practising in Hungary today. He represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and, most recently, in Istanbul. Using lights and photography, pulleys and strings, his works are immediately entertaining but raise profound questions about how we construct our vision of the world.

All is not as it would seem. In various works two glasses appear to contain slanting water, two screws rotate to form the image of a glass, and two perforated discs rotate to create a triangle or circle.

A tetrahedron, a cube and an octahedron, all made of sticks attached to strings, are set on a table. At the push of a button pulleys, weights and counterweights are seen pulling the strings. The geometric figures begin to come apart, reform as a dodecahedron, and eventually revert to their original state.

Recent works have combined geometry with photography and for this exhibition Csorgo has been commissioned to make new works in Cambridge. In these 'Orange-Spaces' everything that we can see around us is transformed into a globelike image, reversing our perception of the world.

Organised by Kettle's Yard and supported by the Hungarian Cultural Centre, the exhibition forms part of Magyar Magic - Hungary in Focus 2004, a year long celebration of Hungarian art and talent in the United Kingdom.

Image: Attila Csörgö, Untitled 2000

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Ian McKeever - recent paintings and ten years of drawing
15 May - 27 June 2004

Ian McKeever (b 1946) is one of this country's foremost painters. He is also one of contemporary painting's most effective advocates, asserting its continuing capacity for taking on the bigger questions of life.

Kettle's Yard is mounting an exhibition, combining Sentinels, a recent cycle of paintings, with groups of drawings going back over ten years. The paintings are neither abstract nor figurative. Visceral in their paint quality and in the way they suggest living organisms, they take on a more sculptural sense than the veils and stains of earlier work.
The Kettle's Yard exhibition coincides with an exhibition of McKeever's large Four Quartet paintings at Newlyn Art Gallery and an exhibition of paintings at the Alan Cristea Gallery. A joint catalogue will be published.

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Attila Csorgo - Biographical details
1965 born in Budapest
1988-94 Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1993 Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1994-97 Derkovits scholarship
1998 Smohay Prize
2000 Munkácsy Prize

Selected solo exhibitions:
1994 Three Solids, Obudai Pincegaleria, Budapest
1995 Goethe-Institut, Budapest
1996 Studio Galeria, Budapest
1999 Altered StatesSKUC Galerija, Ljubljana
Galeria Monumental, Lisbon
2000 Galerie fur Gegenwartakunat Barbara Claassen-Schmall, Bremen
L'Aqua Obliqua, Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua
2001 Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
2002 Semi-Space, Budapest Galeria, Budapest

Gallery open Tues-Sun 11.30-17.00, open Bank Holiday Monday, closed Good Friday

For further information or images please contact Susie Biller tel 01223 352124 or reply to this e-mail.

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ tel 01223 352124

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