Gaál József: Álomban létező II. - 2005-02-16 — 2005-03-12 - Godot Galéria

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Álomban létezők soroazatból

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Those that exist in dreams from the series.

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At the exhibition 'Álomban létező II.' by visual artist József Gaál.

Opening: Nagy T. Katalin, art historian.

At the vernissage, the musical composition “Álomban létező” by Bali János, inspired by the exhibition’s images, is performed by singers Éva Bodrogi and Noémi Kiss.

Opening: February 16, at 20 oʼclock.

Gaál József has a passage between dream and reality, between this world and the after‑world, and between the conscious and the subconscious sphere, as if he were unaware when he moves across – live by Hölderlin’s words – the “light‑bound bridge”. The title of his Irish exhibition is “Álomban létező”; this suggests the fleeting boundary, the apparently opposing elements of the intangible dream and the unknowable existence seem to merge for him. Through his art he summons the collective human spirit, as if he were looking for the precursor of all myths, the primal myth, because, as he himself says: “The subconscious and the supra‑conscious, the conscious and the unconscious are indivisible in art. Inspiration is both ethereal and instinctive at once, demureness and perfection, descent and ascent.”

from the Gnome II series, 2003

Gaál's paintings are, in the Jungian sense, “inner images, deliberate evocations in accordance with nature.” The artist delves ever deeper into himself; his canvases are the stages of this self‑exploration, of probing into his own being. His art is a spiritual adventure of a man who dares to confront his own self.

From the series “Álomban létezők”.

From the series 'Beings existing in a dream'.

In József Gaál’s art one often finds echoes of both pagan and Christian traditions, yet the artist continually adopts new, self‑crafted masks to summon—or indeed to repel—the demons. Listening to his music and looking at his paintings and sculptures, one is frequently left with the impression that the fabled “light‑hearted bridge” is actually a work in its own right, and when it is finished the artist returns to a world of darkness before embarking once more on that particular journey we call creation. The material for the exhibition titled **Álomban létező II** at the Godot Gallery was born within the aura of ten large‑scale canvases exhibited at the Kiscelli Museum and the Cork Vision Centre. Some of these preceded the major series, holding within them every beauty and tension of the artist’s search for style; others were created in a slightly freer but still path‑finding state after the opening, either on the train between Cork and Dublin or, quite possibly, on the flight home.

Existing in a Dream I. at the Kiscelli Museum

Open: until March 12 from Tuesday to Friday 10 and 18, on Saturdays between 10 and 13.

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