Title: Mutató nélkül
Description: Ferenc Gróf picks one element from a museum collection and another from literary history and re-interprets them through his individual approach and toolkit. Bernáth's panel painting will be presented to the public for the first time after the 1958 World's Fair. The text and images of Déry's novel -- though it was republished just a few years ago -- were not much quoted during the past decades. Gróf puts the layers of meaning of both works onto one another to invite the public to recognise and reread the past. A subjective selection from the text of the novel 'Mr. A. G in X' appears in the exhibition space while the panels of Aurél Bernáth's painting are rearranged according to an algorithm that overwrites the artwork's original logic. The panel painting originally decorating the outside of a pavilion now will be presented indoors, while the book -- closed, practically un-presentable in an exhibition -- will be opened up through a selection of passages. Historic documents, newsreel excerpts, audio recordings give shades to the picture of the period and the context of the two artworks. Ferenc Gróf builds his analysis upon the idea that there is no such thing as a unique and obligate image of the past, or a singular narrative of history; past exists through after-constructions. Bernáth's painting will be reconstructed for the last two weeks of the exhibition; its panels will be rearranged according to the original logic.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Social conditions, Képzőművészet, Kiállítási katalógus
Places: Hungary, magyar
People: Ferenc Gróf (1972-), Aurél Bernáth (1895-1982), Tibor Déry (1894-1977), Gróf Ferenc, Bernáth Aurél (1895-1982), Déry Tibor (1894-1977)
Time periods: 1945-1989, 20-21. sz