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The Godot Gallery warmly invites you.

Ferenc Csurgai, sculptor

Before rain, after fire

for the exhibition titled ___

Opening: 16 June 2011 · 18:00

Opening by: József Gaál

Viewable until July 9.

After Rain, Before Fire I. (Concrete)

Before rain, after fire II. (concrete)

After rain before fire III. (concrete)

Before the rain, after the fire IV. (concrete)

Before the rain, after the fire

The state of certainty in waiting. The rain that must fall, tear‑gushing, accelerated, and tickled to bring life to the world, must descend. The drought will end, even if a flood sweeps it away.

I must say that Ferenc Csurgai is the alchemist of space. As a painter he treats colour, tone and surface as the fundamental elements of a painter’s space‑shaping magic. As a sculptor he views the form that grows out of itself and the conscious use of void as the alchemy of sculpture. Above all, as a man of spirit he places the apprehension and experience of the primal movements of existence at the service of self‑discovery.

I see, what is this? What am I seeing here? A body? What kind of body? Whose body is this, for what purpose? How did it get here, and why is it here? From what, by whom, and how was it created? What must I know about it? In the first place: must I know anything about it? What can I rely on? Should I take my knowledge in advance? Do I have to search in my recollections, after concepts and meanings, for form, space, rhythm, balance, convexity and concavity, statics and dynamics, light‑shadow and texture, mass, materiality and technology? Must I spin back the images of the past from contemporary hands to the Ishtar gate? Do I have to quote the masks of the Dionysian mysteries, the tensho calligraphy, and the picture of the Cape Canaveral launch‑pad tower? What is the relation of a fetus in amniotic fluid, the fissures of the cerebral cortex, and the column of vertebrae to all this? How many cues must I listen to before I uncover the hidden fifth element behind the fourth motif? Should I rethink the teaching of Sakjamuni Buddha on the suspension of creation and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity in the mirror of the ind Trimurti? Must I remember Geber’s dissertation on the circulation of elements? Should I look for an explanation of the concepts of autogenesis and heterogenesis? What must I know of everything in order to understand Ferenc Csurgai’s sculptures?

These sculptures do not need to be understood. On the contrary, they are there so that I can understand what I know. If there is art, this is its heart.

The drought will come to an end, and if a flood wipes it away, the living, throbbing spine will still stand after the flood, protecting the vertebrae.

György Verebes

Vegetábilis sketch III. (coloured concrete medium)

Vegetábilis Pendant III. (coloured concrete)

Vegetábilis hanging II. (coloured concrete)

Vegetábilis Hanging II (made of coloured concrete)

Vegetábilis hanging I – IV (made of coloured concrete)

Vegetábilis függő I - IV (in coloured concrete)

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