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Through showcasing a selection of artworks of the last 35 years of Gábor Magyar’s artistic activity, this exhibition presents a retrospection and summary of the artist’s work in progress.
The main motive of the displayed artworks is the “waterdrop” and the constructions created on the basis of the drop. The motive of the drop can be traced back to two basic forms of European iconography: the circle or sphere, and the triangle. The circle or sphere is a “perfect” form: the circle appears in the halo, and the sphere represents womanliness, safety, the universe, the material world, and it is likewise a conjurer of the sense of spatiality. In contrast, the triangle represents intellectual and spiritual reality, intuition, creation, and the Holy Trinity in Christian iconography. Its pointed and sharp features connect it to some fundamental and ancient characteristics associated with man. Created at the crossroads of the two shapes, the ambivalent form of the drop unites the features of the above two shapes, thereby exhibiting universal qualities.
The three-dimensional geometric shape of the drop, which is concurrently open and closed and constitutes a symbiosis of the sphere and the pyramid, also provokes anthropomorphic associations by way of conjuring up the simplified notion and schemata of the human head. The tension that lies between the drop’s spatially non-reproducible features and its very shape, which presents the beholder with the notion of spatiality, signals the concurrent presence of both rationality and intuition.
Organizer: Fine Art Section of Hungarian Academy of Arts
The exhibition could be visited: 09.10.2018–18.11.2018