| | | |  | | Hungary | | 2nd -26th February 2005 | | | | Click here to view photo gallery of this exhibition | | |  | | | | | 'Above all, the lesson is for us who are in charge of Hungarian politics. We must realise the message of the map, of the past, the present, and the future, but we must not over-dramatise the past, and carry all its burden with us. And we must not lose our way in the mirage of the future. The past has only as much worth as the stones that can be salvaged for the construction of the future. Anything that may weaken that building of the future must be jettisoned mercilessly'.
Árpád Göncz
President of Hungary 1990-2000
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HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY AT THE CORK VISION CENTRE |
17th January Cork 2005: Following its successful opening exhibition, the Cork Civic Trust Cork 2005 partnership project, Enlargement! – bringing the ‘new’ Europe to Cork raises the bar in shape of dual exhibitions from Maria Lugossy and József Gaál; two highly respected but radically different artists from Hungary.
Working in stone, steel, bronze and glass Internationally acclaimed sculptor Maria Lugossy has exhibited her work widely – including Bilbao; Madrid; Tokyo: New York; Chicago: and the Louvre in Paris - since 1973.
Her work addresses a variety of themes including memory and denial; and the cycle of birth, life and death. They range from sculptures of small dimensions to monumental public works but recurring throughout her work are the themes of the dichotomy of violence and love and suffering and hope. Strikingly visual, her work is a tactile exploration that continuously evokes a strong response.
Existing in Dream; new works created for the Cork Vision Centre by József Gaál is a collection of paintings of the artist’s vision of the spirits that live and breath within us. Gaal’s creatures seem to appear from a gigantic labyrinth as if they have been treading mythical corridors for centuries, only to evoke forgotten feelings or sensations. Working largely with acrylics, Gaal’s huge canvases are a counterweight yet complementary to Lugossy’s powerful sculpture.
During the course of the exhibition, Cork Civic Trust in association with the Triskel Arts Centre will present a series of three films by contemporary Hungarian Directors.
Liberation and Existing in Dream will be officially launched by the Hungarian Ambassador to Ireland. Opening to the public on Wednesday 2nd February, it will run until 26th February 2005
| | | IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Throughout one’s life one carries the genesis, in one’s cells, juices and tissues: the embryonic form wanders through its curious lands – the depths of the primordial seas, the fissures of ancient rocks – multiplying itself in the wonderful refractions of matter, to grow and find completion in endless space.
Maria Lugossy 1986
Our being goes back to the time when the primordial soup had already produced us. The currents of millennia carried us on. We lay low in the furrows of surface foldings, sleeping through eons. The unfit for life were enclosed in rocks, living fossils you can still see.
Maria Lugossy 1986
We no longer believe in spirits, but if we wrap our arms round the trunk of a tree we get the sense some old-old brotherhood, as if some age-old venerable spirit were radiating its goodness towards us. The roots of millennial traditions are being plucked, but hidden in the depths of the soul there exists a vegetative world that inextricably connects us to nature. We may delve deeper, but cannot shake off its influence. This struggle goes on in within; the irrational soul seeks to get rid of its links with nature. And the war of the elements, too, goes on within, because the world is, for all its cyclical changes, almost changeless. It evolves in a slowly rolling way, its timeless slothfulness cannot be disturbed.
József Gaál 2004
For Further Information
Contact: The Cork Vision Centre
Tel: 353-21-4279925
Email: visioncentre@eircom.net
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