Szent István Király Múzeum
Csók István Képtár
2022.06.10 – 2022.09.25
KÖZÖSSÉG | ÉPÍTÉS –
A top_OS csop_Ort alakuló kiállítása a városról,
a helyről és az időről
Szent István Király Museum
Csók István Gallery
2022. 10 June – 25 September
COMMUNITY | BUILDING
The founding exhibition of the top_OS Collective –
on the city, the place and the time
His art focuses on the past in several aspects. He uses large variety of exposition: installation, film, video, photograph, graphics etc.
"Storytelling is the philosophy of the things that have happened - wrote Egon Friedell.. Every story is born to an individual, however much the writer struggles to achieve scientific objectivity. The memories of the past are like separate musical notes, which we make into a melody in a certain era and put down in a sheet of music. Each era has its own melody. Each historical memory is waiting to be conceived by the future, so that a reality is formed. The way of thinking about the past or a canon can be formed or changed, as it is not exclusively about the original truth but about ourselves." - Zsolt
Zsolt Asztalos exhibited through Hungary and all Europe. He represented Hungary at 55th Venice Biennale with his project 'Fired but Unexploded'.
Géza is a writer, researcher, poet from Budapest, Hungary. He holds a PhD in theoretical computer science from the TU Darmstadt, Germany and teaches at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts, Budapest. He is a founder of the Urbanum Research Foundation, aiming a transdisciplinary understanding of the city. His interests include the theory of art and aesthetics, the interrelations of technology and spirituality, and the relevance of gnosis and metaphysics in our age.
A partial list of publications and projects: http://www.svadhyaya.hu/
Balázs Csizik (1987, Székesfehérvár) obtained his master’s degree in Visual Communication (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) where he’s a lecturer now, in the fields of visual communication and communication technology. He combines the visual language of photography with other fine art forms, using different skillsets. His artistic vision is inspired by modern experimental architecture and art forms like suprematism and constructivism.
The common feature of his series is reduction, minimalism, which appears in colors, composition and visuals at the same time. This kind of reductivity also involves some distance, resignation in relation of the urban appearance displayed. In one of his series, he turns to the local phenomenon of post-socialist visual culture from a global viewpoint. In his works he uses custom made materials, like plywood objects and textile elements with organic surfaces of natural substrates. The main visual is based on the handmade artificial world and the interplay between nature and built elements. This is accompanied by the duality of digital and analogue technical solutions within his art. In his series he experiments with the relations between rough urban elements and nature – he also experiments how he can change the weight and form of the different kind of urban materials with the use of natural elements to give new feelings about the inhuman and brutal materials like concrete.
Born in 1988 in Győr, Kristóf has a degree as graphic designer and artist-teacher from the University of Fine Arts, Budapest. He uses the name KristofLab as a kind of brand since 2016 to highlight the multimedial and interdisciplinary nature of his work. Just as in top_OS, collaborations are a central part of his activities, inviting other genres and forms of expression to a dialogue with his pieces. "For me, art is a form of thinking. In my work, analytical observations and creative methods coincide - and get transformed into audiovisual representations of conceptual utopias."
As media artists and artistic researchers, Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke have been working together on the theory and practice of intermedial arts for 20 years. Thus, their artistic practice includes video, film, photography, interactive and site-specific installations, walk-in 360-degree cinema spaces, as well as the curation of exhibitions, symposia, film series, workshops and publications. With their installations and artistic films, they investigate how human cognition is changed by cinematography and what consequences the recording of image phases has on our perception of time, space and movement. They are founding members of the Concrete Narrative Society e.V. and since 2021 artistic experts of SPUR.lab (Site Specific Augmented Storytelling lab).
Selected recent screenings and exhibitions include: Fabulation For Future (2022), Ludwig Museum Budapest (Time Machine—A new selection from the collection of the Ludwig Museum, 2020–23), Fotograf Gallery Prague (Of Walking on Ice, 2021), Ani Molnar Gallery Budapest (Construction, 2021), LOOP Barcelona (Video Art Fair, 2021) and Serralves Porto— Casa do Cinema (Cinema and Photography: Spectral Visions, 2021).
Selected recent screenings and exhibitions include: Fabulation For Future (2022), Ludwig Museum Budapest (Time Machine—A new selection from the collection of the Ludwig Museum, 2020–23), Fotograf Gallery Prague (Of Walking on Ice, 2021), Ani Molnar Gallery Budapest (Construction, 2021), LOOP Barcelona (Video Art Fair, 2021) and Serralves Porto— Casa do Cinema (Cinema and Photography: Spectral Visions, 2021).