Attila Csörgő

ARTWORK

installation art

geometry / mixed media / optics / space / vision

1991

During the last five years, I have mainly created works that were organised around geometrical problems and physical (optical and mechanical) questions. (...) The work in the exhibition is created from simple optical instruments: lenses and periscopes. The way the work is exhibited is also a pioneering method in that it is not located in the exhibition space, nor on one of its walls, but is actually fixed into the gallery wall itself. I sank the elements into the surface of the wall so the apertures of the periscopes look like black points from a distance. Until the viewer looks more closely at them, they seem entirely flat, but, in fact, the work is embedded in space threefold. In a physical sense it is in the wall; the viewer by looking into the periscope, glances back into the gallery, yet in doing so, the spectacle appears as a virtual space beyond the wall. (...) (A.Cs.)

The Butterfly Effect - Current Coordinates