*Source (2010) - public art installation

Pécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia. The city has long and remarkable history, and was founded by Romans at the beginning of the 2nd century. Since Pécs has been selected to be the European Capital of Culture in 2010, several events has been organized all over the city.
Source, my public art installation is one of the 21 projects, realized between the frameworks of 21 dialogues public art festival, supported by the University of Pécs, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Thanks to the numerous historical remains, one can feel the past (and time, generally) very intensely, while staying in the city. This time, I imagined Time as a living organism, laying under our feet. I wanted to objectify its existence by transforming it into an organic system, so I built up a huge vascular system of long, transparent silicon tubes and infusion bottles in a small garden in the downtown, called Kultúrkert. Since the infusion sets I used are adjustable, the colored water circulated in different speeds, and strengthened the impression of a living being. The installation acted as an island in the city, visitors usually could not just pass by, they interacted many ways with the installation.

*Time-Gravitation 1.0 (2010) - video installation

The perception of the known, surrounding universe has its own rules. We live with these rules to orientate ourselves in the world around. But what happens if we just simulate another kind of perception?

In Time-Gravitation 1.0, which is the second piece of the video series, I focus on the phenomenon of the so-called optical flow - the pattern of apparent motion of objects in a visual scene caused by the relative motion between an observer and the scene. This time I take apart the well-known landscape, analyze it and rebuild a totally new universe by using reversed rules for the apparent speed of motion. We face this extraordinary universe, and enter right into its center, where viewers are "gravitated" and absorbed by the surrounding space.

The realisation of the project has been supported by the National Cultural Fund, Department of Fine Arts.




2010 Idő-Gravitáció 1.0, Spiritusz Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

NEWS - 21 dialogues in Pécs, ECC 2010

From 12 to 26 June, 21 public art installation can be discovered all over the city of Pécs. My newest public art installation, the Forrás/Source, located at the Kultúrkert, is one of the realized projects, supported by the organizer University of Pécs, Faculty of Visual Arts and Music. Each project is expected to reflect on current social and cultural problems and involve locals by some kind of interaction.
More about the event here.
More about the Source here - soon!!

NEWS - Time-Gravitation 1.0 Freshly Launched

Time-Gravitation 1.0, a brand-new video installation, has just been set up in a black box of the Spiritusz Gallery. From the 1st till the 11th of June, we can experience an alternative universe of perception simply by laying down and letting the video to reach our senses. The visitors of the vernissage should expect some extraordinary sound experience from the musicians: Endre Kertész (cello) and Szabolcs Veres (live electronics) at 18h. See you there!

The realisation of the installation has been supported by the National Cultural Fund.