Hallo Wroclaw. IT WAS, IT IS, and IT WILL BE
Let’s start at the beginning. I’d never been to Poland before. I arrived in Morawa. Where thew symposium took place, after an exhausting journey at night. I already met round shapes in Wroclaw, which was reassuring for me. Round shapes have been present in my work for years. It’s important to me to understand what it’s like to arrive as an artist at an unknown place, where you’ve never been before, and to create something in answer to a given topic. This topic was: it was, it is and it will be. I wanted to continue my previous work. Using an old typewriter, I typed this text on wet paper. This was the basis. Compared to the graphically precisely defined pixel letters of the digital era, the diffluent, damaged letters of the traditional typewriter are really like the memories of a much older civilization. Maybe they can become a kind of visual poetry? Then I discovered the surroundings, the palace, its huge garden, and I went to look around. The palace was a setting that hid exciting stories for me. It symbolised the past and time. My short presence was the present. The future can be a thick fog which I could admire from my room window early in the morning. It was , it is and it will be are three expressions that are present in everyone’s life and perhaps the intangible present is what really matters.
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Photo: David Biro
1. Layers of Time I. 16 × 16 × 2,5 cm, paper, sumi ink, 2017
2. Layers of Time II. 16 × 16 × 1,2 cm, paper, sumi ink, 2017
3. Layers of Time III. 16 × 16 × 2,3 cm, paper, sumi ink, 2017
4. Layers of Time III. 16 × 16 × 2,3 cm, paper, sumi ink, 2017
5. Layers of Time III. 16 × 16 × 2,3 cm, paper, sumi ink, 2017
1. Circles of Time I. 19 × 19 cm, paper, 2017
2. Circles of Time II. 19 × 19 cm, paper, 2017
3. Circles of Time III. 19 × 19 cm, paper, 2017
