- Dates
- 7 January 2015 – 7 February 2015
- Venue
- Godot Galéria · A korabeli cím ellenőrzés alatt.
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Short listing
An exhibition resurrected from the original WordPress archive of the Godot Gallery.
Full exhibition text
Erdélyi Gábor
Into the circle – into the circle
Opening: 2015 on 7 January at 20 o'clock.
Opening: Tóth Árpád, Neon Gallery
Open: until February 7 in opening hours from Tuesday to Friday 9 to 14, on Saturday between 10 and 13.
In larger size
ZSM Then, in truth, the same thing will occupy you from time to time.
EG Perhaps more important is what attracts the viewer when they look at my pictures… Like
I took the first step in creating visual art when I built a visual world. It speaks, and I have no voice left. In the next stage my own subjectivity no longer matters, so in that respect it is almost irrelevant what occupies my attention. But I do not wish to divert from your question. No matter what the thought may be, it multiplies and merges, then collapses and halts. They harden into a still image. The picture is not about anything other than taking space as its foundation. Space is a package; within that package are the theme, the motif, the story, and others. Everything is together because nothing is emphasised; the whole “God’s zoo” is incorporated into the picture.
ZSM, you are now talking about the scope of your paintings…
EG It makes no difference whether I’m talking about the inner space of a painting, my own room, the butter in the fridge, or the realm of our thoughts – with greater insight they’re all the same. Everything that ever comes up takes place within the realm of our world. The essential question is how boundaries can be expanded by us or how we experience their alteration. Well, this issue is grappled with by my paintings…
ZSM, I see grey canvases arrayed in a calm, motion‑less stillness on the walls, yet the real spectacle is not upon the canvas' “face” but upon its edges.
I simplify: if the aim of my research is some unknown thing, it begins by naming the environment we inhabit. We see that quite clearly, and most of the practical details come from that. It is encouraging, and at the same time dramatic. But to lighten up a bit, and to live by another analogy: my newer paintings are like the cellophanes that cover our grandmothers' preserves, stretched at the edges with different coloured rubber. If we pull the stretched cellophane covering from the glass mouth, everything ...
(interview excerpt)
Zsikla Mónika: Erdélyi Gábor and the Edge of Being
Flash Art – Hungarian edition, II. issue, 1, number 2013, January–February.
http://erdelyigabor.com/kepek/ErdelyiGabor_FlashArt_interju_repro_x.pdf
In larger size.