- Dates
- 3 December 2008 – 23 December 2008
- Venue
- Godot Galéria · A korabeli cím ellenőrzés alatt.
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Short listing
An exhibition resurrected from the Godot Gallery's original WordPress archive.
Full exhibition text
Speak or listen forever VII
The Godot Gallery warmly invites you
András Dániel
Speak, or listen forever
for the exhibition titled ___
Opening: 3 December 2008 · 20:00
Opening: Vörös István, poet.
On 2007 Dániel András drew a sketch every day of the week: he looked for the subject in newspapers, using the photographs and captions he found there as the starting point for his visual thinking, a process that left plenty of room for free association. Over the course of a year he gained substantial experience and insight from his consistent work‑therapy‑style practice, which he later translated into canvas paintings.
Speak, or listen forever VI.
The paintings now on display at the Godot Gallery are enigmatic images. The figures, objects and settings are recognisable in one way or another from somewhere—TV, adverts, cinema, comics, video games, and so on—but seemingly fitted into the same picture by a collage‑like self‑referential logic. The paintings, composed of fragments presumably taken from their original contexts, await a new interpretation. Even more! They directly urge the viewer to interpret them, as the exhibition title openly declares: Speak, or listen forever… The title itself is decisively determinative, as if it were pre‑booking the fact that beyond this one‑off opportunity here and now there is no other chance for communication. But beware, for a sly title choice lies ahead.
Using a phrase borrowed from the theatrical dramaturg, Dániel András places his characters in a new situation and waits to see what unfolds between the image and the viewer. In the pictures every single detail brings with it the repertoire of its original context, and these motifs evoke countless layers of our visual culture, just as popular culture today freely and unrestrainedly exploits the toolkit of art, religion, film history, photography, etc.
In other words: Daniel András’s images are laden with possibilities for interpretation; each element is a key to a potential reading for anyone who takes part in the game of articulating the images, that is, who comes to the exhibition.
Speak or listen forever III.
The exhibition can be viewed from 2008 December 23.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 – 18, Saturday 10 – 13.