CASE STUDY project / installation / wood [2012-13]
„This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside. I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge: That is exactly the way I wanted it!"Antoine De Saint-Exupéry *
The project called Case Study, poses certain questions.: “What people or generally the society
expect from the artist?” or “What does it really mean to be
a contemporary artist?” and asks the question: “What
the Museum means for you?”
I developed this
project during different residencies. I started my work at MeetFactory inPrague / Czech Republic (with the generous support of the Visegrad Fund) in 2012 and proceeded to carry it out during the La Malterie Residency program in Lille / France in 2013. The biggest piece made in South-Korea during the Seoul Museum of Art -Nanji Residency Program. The main objective was to explore local art scenes and find topics in the air.
I interviewed people, including artists and curators to collect information and try to draw a map of expectations, concerning art historical references as well. The contribution of the audience - thinking together, starting conversations - was essential for me as these collected opinions became the basic source of my installation.
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| Visegrad Fund |
I interviewed people, including artists and curators to collect information and try to draw a map of expectations, concerning art historical references as well. The contribution of the audience - thinking together, starting conversations - was essential for me as these collected opinions became the basic source of my installation.
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| La Malterie |
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| Seoul Museum of Art |
The installation HETEROTOPIA
- “Opened Space„ “열린 공간 „ - installation / wood /
210x210x210 cm / 2013 - built out of
visitors’ feedbacks during the SeMA Nanji Residency Program. I surveyed the
visitors of the Seoul Museum of Art and collected their feelings concerning
their relationship with the museum. My question was:
“What the Museum means for you?”
I created a space which people are
able and allowed to enter. The personal definitions are appearing and thus the
walls open and the thoughts are projected into the real space. My project is
questioning whether art can influence our daily life. There is a certain change
when we enter a museum, because the context of the place influences our view. I
intend to analyze this change of our view of the world through different eyes.
If a museum as a place can modify our mind, then what happens if we find our
daily life there?
The work
refers to the definition of ‘Heteropotia’. Foucault uses this term to
describe spaces that have multiple layers of meanings or relationships to other
places, more than what immediately meets the eye. In general, a heterotopia is
a physical representation of a utopia or a parallel space that contains
undesirable bodies to make a real utopian space possible.
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*Antoine De
Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince / Le Petit Prince 1943
[Fig.1.] Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors (1533) with a Memento mori anamorph skull in the foreground, oil on oak, 207 cm × 209.5 cm (81 in × 82.5 in) National Gallery, London
[Fig.1.] Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors (1533) with a Memento mori anamorph skull in the foreground, oil on oak, 207 cm × 209.5 cm (81 in × 82.5 in) National Gallery, London
Esettanulmány – Heterotopia / interaktív installáció, fa [2012-]
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Az Esettanulmány [2012-] sorozat a művész szerepét
vizsgálja a társadalomban az esettanulmányok módszereihez hasonlóan. Különböző kulturális csoportok véleményét vizsgálva olyan kérdéseket feszeget, mint
például: “Mit vár el a néző, vagy tágabb értelemben a társadalom a művésztől?”; „Mit
jelent igazából kortárs képzőművésznek lenni?, illetve, hogy a látogatók számára “Mit jelent a Múzeum?”.
A sorozat rezidencia programokon, különböző helyszíneken vizsgálja a múzeumlátogatók, művészek és
kurátorok válaszait a feltett kérdésekre. Az összegyűjtött
véleményekből épültnek
a mű. A válaszokat
csoportosítva a nagyobb témakörök, pl. : társadalmilag elkötelezett; nyitott
gondolkodású; a jelenben élő … kerültek feldolgozásra, előhívva azok művészettörténeti
vonatkozásait.
A
válaszok anamorfózis segítségével jelennek meg, és vetülnek vissza a
megkérdezett célcsoportra. A vélemények a valós térben mintegy elvárásként -
nem pozitív formaként, hanem inkább hiányzó, nem fizikailag ott lévőként - értelmezhetőek, így csak
bizonyos nézőpontból láthatók. Zárt, műtárgytároló dobozok tartalmazzák a definíciókat,
melyekbe kis nyílás enged bepillantanunk. A képzőművészetre
vonatkoztatható elvárások emblematikus képekben jelennek meg, visszavetítve azokat
a vizsgált közösségre.
Az
Esettanulmány célja nem a válaszadás, hanem a levegőben lévő témák és elvárások vizualizálása. Megjeleníteni a kimondottat nem
fizikailag, hanem a meglévő térből előhívva. A cél az elgondolkodtatás, illetve a kommunikáció
serkentése, a tér fizikai volta helyett annak szellemi, közösségi rétegeinek
felfedése.
A
sorozat legnagyobb darabja - Heterotopia
- “Megnyílt
tér” / fa /
210x210x210cm [2013] -
Dél-Koreában, a Seoul Múzeum of Art Nanji Rezidencia
programon készült Heterotópia – „Megnyílt tér” [2013] installáció a
múzeumlátogatók véleményét vizualizálja, abból a kérdésből kiindulva,
hogy számukra “Mit jelent a Múzeum?”.
A
projekt Foucault által használt ‘heterotopia’ fogalomra reflektál. A kifejezés
a tér azon típusát jelöli, ami minden más térrel kapcsolatban áll, és
- szemben az utópiával -
valós hellyel rendelkezik.
Az installáció egy nagyméretű térből kivágott tér formájában jelenik meg, a nézőket is magába
foglaló formaként. Besétálva mintegy filterként részben elfedi, részbe
látni engedi a környező teret. A személyes vélemények megnyitják a falakat, és
kivetülnek a vizsgált területre. A mű fő kérdése: Ha a múzeum terében máshogy szemléljük a
dolgokat, mi történik akkor, ha a saját hétköznapi életünket találjuk ott?
*Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, A Kis
Herceg / Le Petit Prince 1943
[Fig.1.] ifjabb Hans Holbein : The Ambassadors (1533) olajfestmény, 207 cm × 209.5 cm (81 in × 82.5 in) National Gallery, London
[Fig.1.] ifjabb Hans Holbein : The Ambassadors (1533) olajfestmény, 207 cm × 209.5 cm (81 in × 82.5 in) National Gallery, London
[Fig.2.] koponya
Holbein The Ambassadors képéről más szögből
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„지겨운 일상생활에서 벗어나 자유롭게 꿈꿀 수 있는 곳”„ Place where we can get out of daily life and dream freely.”
2012 - Case Study (solo show); Galerie Kostka,
MeetFactory, Prague / CZ
"The current art
project of the MeetFactory artist-in-residence Tamás Szvet begun with a basic
question: what do you expect from an artist? As the Little Prince or any child
has shown to a grownup, the simplest questions are often those most difficult
to answer. The artist has been posing the question during his three-month stay
in Prague, asking the visitors of his studio to answer it on a sheet of paper.
Since it was mostly adults answering, the outcome was largely determined by the
common socio-cultural standards, education and perhaps a slight fear of
originality, which in some cases resulted in ridiculing the whole subject. The
outcome was, therefore, not far from the artist's initial assumptions. Although
modern and contemporary art has been involved in a fight for plurality of
aesthetic qualities for quite a while now, many people still do expect beauty.
As Arthur Danto has put it, although beauty is no longer the one and only
possibility for an artwork, it is, unlike other aesthetic qualities, also a value
we can hardly live without. Besides beauty, we expect concepts: art should be
thought provoking, the artist should pose new and interesting questions and
perhaps even give some answers. He or she should bring new points of view and
let us think outside the box. Then comes engagement. An artist should be
critical, point out things that are happening in our society, culture,
politics. And of course there is a claim for originality and innovation.
Foremost, yes of course, we expect freedom. However obvious that might sound,
it is actually quite essential to remind us of that sometimes.
The concept of thinking inside and outside the box merged with a recent
experience the artist made in an art museum in Hamburg. He entered an area
closed for installation of a new exhibition, where the art to be was still
contained in professional packages with names of the (mostly rather famous)
artists written on top of them. One could, therefore, only imagine what is
hidden in the box and draw the exhibition in his own head. For his installation
presented in the Kostka Gallery, Szvet created handicraft pinhole boxes,
inviting the viewer to take a look in their inner perspective. The images they
contain are derived from the topics of the artist's research. They might be universal
symbols, images from old books or widely recognizable artworks. One of the
boxes is left blank, with no image and no possibility to look inside. This one
correlates with the perhaps most interesting answer to the artist's question: a
blank sheet of paper. Thinking outside the box does not have to mean giving the
right answers. It can stand for posing good questions and giving them space to
resonate." / Karina Kottová
"The artist is a prism, a filter he lets the questions
related to the society through. His production is an attempt to reply these
questions after filtering them through the prism. The result is tinged with the
vision of the artist."
"A művész
egy prizma, egy filter, amelyen a társadalmi kérdések áthatolnak. Munkájában
ezeket a kérdéseket igyekszik megválaszolni, mint egy szűrő. Az eredmény már az alkotó reakcióját vetíti elénk. … "
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| Derkovits Now, Kunsthalle, Budapest / HU / 2013 |
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| Derkovits Now, Kunsthalle, Budapest / HU / 2013 |