Ferenczy Zsolt: Vizit

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Vizit I. oil, canvas, 40x60, 2009

Godot Gallery respectfully invites you and your partner

Ferenczy Zsolt

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for the exhibition titled ___

Opening: 2010 January 6 at 20 o'clock

Opening: Krisztián Kukla, philosopher

Ferenczy Zsolt, a Godot Gallery laureate at the Miskolc Graphic Biennale, is not showing his award‑winning works this time, but rather brand‑new paintings.

Lost I. oil on canvas, 40 × 40 cm, 2009

Ferenczy Zsolt’s exhibition “Vizit” informs us about the unrecorded playground of paintings and photographs. The guide, a fan of hospitality and the alienating thread it weaves, mainly brings the navigation into play. Kant has become a cartographer of the untapped realms of the human mind, playing with the idea in his essay “To Navigate Among Thoughts: What Does This Mean?” that if, by some miracle, the constellations preserved their shapes and positions, only the direction of their position would change – and something that has been eastern so far would now become western – then on the next starlit night the human eye would not detect even the slightest change, and if it only focused on what it saw, even an astronomer would inevitably lose his bearings. Thus navigation is always preceded by something that at the same time makes it possible. Ferenczy Zsolt’s images, for me, are decisively about that experience. It would be too simple, however, to say that internal homeliness is required to master external alienation, for the directions do not simply, indeed often do not follow that path. Something always embeds itself between the retina and the world, and vision and visuality can never be entirely equated. To navigate the realm of painting, of course, offers perspectives, because painting – not just landscape painting – is the business of the perspectives of navigation. Yet distance, afstand, is simultaneously the concept with which we can describe, though not explain, how a person grows up, how one comes to possess a world. For a child, the world is a total of objects with corners and lives, or better put, a range of possibilities, especially the possibilities of collision‑free penetration. Wondering that it might be different, the possibility of changing one’s point of view literally reworks the world, and navigation henceforth means first learning to avoid collision. Ferenczy Zsolt’s images uncover the experience of the reworked yet object‑filled world, and the stunning cheerfulness of that spun world, and the single‑minded threat it presents, draws our attention.

Land over II. 80 x 120, oil on canvas, 2009

The exhibition will be open until the 6 of February, from Tuesday to Friday between 10 and 18, and on Saturday from 10 to 13.

The artist's further works:

Seventeen

Eighty‑two

ninety‑five

Visit III

Lightning collector

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