Capa Project – Contemporary projected images

Exactly 1001 pieces of work have been sent to the competition, announced by the recently opened Capa Center in order to select the material for its first exhibition. It is a fabulous coincidence in terms of numerology. If we are thinking in terms of mythological time in relation to art, mysticism has an important role to play at this exhibition, where the works are projected in various ways instead of being shown in the traditional print format. The implicit meanings of projection are particularly intensified at the exhibition, if we read Siegfried Zielinski’s and Miklós Peternák’ essays about the history of this medium in the catalogue. As the curator of this exhibition, however, I hope that after the vernissage all these will only remain a well-sounding piece of memory, a trans-substantiated detail, and the message and the splendor of the works at this exhibition will shine much more in the memory of the spectators.

I am writing these lines at the initial stage of creating an exhibition with an extremely complex content, at an exciting moment when – having the list of the specific entries to the competition and the contributing guest artists –we have to provide space for the works. At the time of my writing, every detail concerning the exhibition is still a fiction. In case of a whirling and varied exhibition material to be shown in diversified formats, including still and moving pictures, there is a stronger than average challenge to show every piece of work in its optimal format, so that they create a new context together, preserving the artists’ original intention at the same time.

It is a really special opportunity to work with pictures, which are shown “immaterially”, in an intangible and non-objectified way, reflected from some kind of surface, perhaps trans-illuminated or composed by millions of tiny luminous pixels. This way of presentation shows that the images may be partly or completely freed from their objective limits. We can see them shining in the freedom of their intangibility, as indelible light prints of ephemeral or longer visualizations completed in a larger process, of dreams, memories, fantasies – and sometimes of human ordeals, dramas and horrors. The projected images imply the primeval nature of visuality, fascinating and occupying the human mind through all ages without any high-tech, virtually real, 3D and other effects. The still or moving pictures shown in the dark space – besides or despite their any other message – evoke a genesis, a primeval stage or a zero point, making them willy-nilly the symbols of darkness fecundated and defeated by light, the tiny timelessness pressed between the huge dichotomy, the eternal present.

Balázs Telek, curator of the exhibition

The exhibition is open to the public:
3/12/2013 – 31/12/2013

Artists:
Tamás Asztalos, László Balogh, Mona Birkás, Clifton Stewart, Tünde Cserepes, Lajos Csontó, Imre Drégely, Gábor Erdős, György Gáti, András D. Hajdú, László 2 Hegedűs, Bálint Hirling, Barna Illés, Katalin Illés, Áron Sándor Károly, Tamás Kende, Ferenc Kratochwill, Árpád Kurucz, Benedek Lakatos, Liina Siib, Edina Lisztes, Lucy Harris, Márton Magócsi, Gergő Matos, Péter Mátrai, László Mudra, Barbara Nagy, Dávid Nemcsik, Zsófia Pályi, Milán Rácmolnár, Artúr Rajcsányi, Ryan Spencer, Sam Jury, Tamás Schild, Gyula Sopronyi, Árpád Sopsits, Balázs Szabó, Kata Száraz, Szilvia Szekeres, Lenke Szilágyi, István Szőnyi, Krisztián Tajti, Zoltán Tuba, Eszter Walton, Sári Zagyvai