János Sugár

ARTWORK

documentation / project / public art

public art / sculpture / street art

1993

Writing texts on the wall has a tremendous tradition in the folklore of big cities. They make an intrinsically illegible town legible. (...) Through my present work I would like to record one (or more) inscriptions of this kind, that is, to lengthen its natural lifetime by placing it into the medium of art. One of the inscriptions of this kind in Budapest is to be found at the end of Városház Street, it is nearly ten years old, as far as I remember. By now we can only guess what the creator's original intention was, it is impossible to know why the word SZTRIPTIZ were important for him/her, therefore the effect of the text has become expressly poetic. So I would like to preserve this inscription by casting it into bronze; I would cast the original typography into bronze of about 2 cms high and by putting it into the wall I would cover the original painted characters. (...) (J.S.)

Polyphony