Exhibition

MI - Andreas FOGARASI / Christian Kosmas MAYER

9 Sep 2020 – 6 Nov 2020

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
14:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
14:00 – 18:00
Thursday
14:00 – 18:00
Friday
14:00 – 18:00
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed

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Vintage Galéria’s current exhibition shows the works of Andreas FOGARASI (1977) and Christian Kosmas MAYER (1976).

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MI

Andreas FOGARASI
Christian Kosmas MAYER

9 September – 6 November 

Please visit the exhibition according to the current health precautions.

the exhibition can be visited online
https://vintage.hu/exhibitions/mi-fogarasi-mayer

and during opening hours
tuesday-friday 2-6pm

Vintage Galéria’s current exhibition shows the works of Andreas FOGARASI (1977) and Christian Kosmas MAYER (1976). The examination of the morphology of the past and present constitutes a basic element of both Fogarasi and Mayers’ art practice. The works of both artists share the element of preservation and the strategy of reprocessing, an examination of the relationship between creativity and power, and the raising of awareness about entropy, which can also be experienced in culture. In a world that is falling apart, Fogarasi and Mayer seek the possibility of slowing down and of intermediate positions – between a fixed vantage point and shifting perspectives, accidental discoveries and methodical research, dismantling and construction. Their present exhibition, which takes details that have been buried or forgotten and uses them as a starting point, explores such general concept pairs as concealment and visibility, erasure and rewriting, or the disappearance and preservation of knowledge. Both artists are interested in the invisible structures of, for instance, power or time, as well as in the mutability or constancy of frameworks and supporting elements – and, by taking these as a premise, the intersection of the past and present.

In the latest pieces of Andreas Fogarasi’s series titled Envelop, we see graphic works from the sixties engaging the themes of the Hungarian Workers’ Movement. Fogarasi frames these prints, formally intended for the purpose of aesthetic or ideological education, in variously sized, hand-folded copper containers. His gesture invokes the past position of graphic artists, along with their ideas and relationships, in the present time; the once-complicated dilemmas of mission and conviction, compliance and artistic freedom are still current. Christian Kosmas Mayer’s carved pine trunks were unearthed in 2012, after the demolishing process of Berlin’s Palast der Republik, a symbolic building of the GDR, erected in the seventies. They were originally submerged in the swampy soil 300 years prior, supporting the enormous structure of the Prussian Berlin Palace that once stood there. Mayer purchased some of these now functionless supporting elements at an auction. Based on photos of the Atlas figures that were once adorning the ornate stairwell of the palace, he had the sculpture details carved into the pillars in a smaller, rougher form. The metamorphoses of the representational patterns of past systems become especially timely today in cases where the powers that be, assuming a specific perspective of the past, dress their new buildings in “old clothes” and use them as tools for politicising history.

József Mélyi

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Andreas Fogarasi

Christian Kosmas Mayer

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