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The Wonderful World of the Horse Race
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ARTWORK
Type:
installation art
Keywords:
coincidence / installation / mixed media / text
Creation Date:
1995 - 1996
Description:
(About Horses) on Whose Backs I Place (Imaginary) Pillows. The "weighing of the odds" in the turf papers can be regarded as free verse. These texts are intended to describe the condition of the horses before the race and their chances of winning with the fewest possible words and in the simplest possible language. These are radical texts, which look back on more than 100 years of tradition. Since the emergence of horseracing, their purpose and form has not changed much. The short pieces of information printed recently in Hungarian Turf show yet another characteristic: they present the horses as having more or less equal chances (...). These texts, romantic and poetic, emphasise the future in the present, and are generated from the fear of the unknown. I would like to paint the wall green, the peculiar green of Budapest betting offices during the seventies, of which a few still exist. (...) (B.V.)
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Original Title (Hungarian):
Életidőből
Original Subtitle:
A lóverseny csodálatos világa
Additional Information:
Painted wall, text, 900 x 600 cm.
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