Everything Eats, Everything Is Eaten - Exhibition of Tamás Komoróczky

You can download the exhibition handout here.

Tamás Komoróczky's latest exhibition consists of a complex environment devised for the entirety of the Trafó Gallery, in which various installation elements, neon lights, videos, sound and scripted works form a coherent, organic unity.

The total art of Komoróczky, who previously staged exhibitions at the Hungarian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale and who has been residing in Berlin for years in Berlin, yet again presents an absolute situation for the visitors. The theme of everything eats, everything is eaten occurred to the influential, Greek-Armenian mystic thinker G..I..Gurdjieff in the early 20th century. (Gurdjieff inspired such major artists as Peter Brook and Frank Lloyd Wright). According to Gurdjieff, every being in the universe reciprocally sustains each other and this isn't merely a biological or bodily, but also a psychological metaphor. The dynamic and automatic life processes require us to sustain ourselves and even for others to directly or indirectly devour us like some kind of nourishment.

Thus the exhibition's central issue is what are we feeding with our behavior, thoughts and emotions? What is feeding on us? The exhibition is a heroic verse of an elemental struggle, in which all things, notions, structures, natural phenomena, living and lifeless systems and goods are fighting for their own survival.

Komoróczky's art which doesn't shy away from asking fundamental metaphysical questions is equally analytical and research-oriented as well as playful, imaginative and experimental. The exhibition is another chapter in the latest artistic period of Komoróczky based on metaphysical research.



Trafó Gallery will be closed between the 23rd and 26th of December 2012.