Time on the Tilt

A Message to J. Kosuth
„The concept is like an egg, in which under the influence of warmth,
life is more concretely organized, so that when life is realized,
it may optimally negate the egg.”
A.Cs 1967.
In the hologram exhibition, realized azt the Hungarian National
Gallery, Budapest, in October 1984, a chair was put in center
of the room on a pedestal
„ In everything new there is something cosmic. And in everything
cosmic there is something emptiness”, said a poet
not so long ago.”What is important in understanding a painting?”
a painter was asked.- He replied in short, „A chair”
Yes in reality the chair is missing. In its place appeared
’sensation’ . But many times in the case of sensation, we
need the chair. We are so used to being confused by the lack
of time, that we are no longer confused by it.
Many years ago, when conceptual art came onto the art
scene, J.Kosuth displayed a chair, with the photograph of the
chair beside it and the definition of a chair, as found in the
Concise Dictionary. He let us know that the world is becoming
conceptual.
„A Message to J. Kosuth” is a response.
Over the chair there are four red passe-partouts. In front of
the first passe-partout, in quarz sand on a wooden tray there
is an egg. On the second passe-partout there is a photograph
of it and on the third there is a definition of the egg taken from
the Hungarian Concise Dictionary. On the fourth, there is a hologram
of the egg.
The world has not become conceptual, but illusory: as if
there were spaces in which we can be realized, into which we
can penetrate. But this is mere illusion. The world is closed.
More real than the egg, there is the wall.
„A Message to J. Kosuth” is a snub to those enthralled by
trans. It points casually to the transitoriness of all trends, to a
virtual word instead of a conceptual one, to a new pedestal,
and also the transitoriness of all pedestals.
(Hungarian National Gallery – Hologram Exhibition, October, 1984.)
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