The Suspicion of Suspense - Exhibition of Daniel Jacoby, Tamara Kuselman and Miklós Vass
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The space of the group exhibition could easily be associated with a crime scene. The ephemeral contemporary works inhabiting the gallery could be all interpreted as clues and imprints, temporary constellations which invite the viewers to participate in a mysterious game.
The exhibited pieces equilibrate between presence and absence, the artists experiment with them to articulate „void” by contemporary means. The transitory and phenomenal lyrical practices are transposed into sensual reality which concentrates on mediation, which tries to fill in and reinterpret the optical and somatic void of space. The incorporeal poesy induced by the works suspend the interpretational expectations regarding objects, and their technical minimalism creates a tension of sensuality in the acoustic and physical space, whereas the playful metaphysical experiments of the artists put emotional chanels in motion.
Through the presentation of the objects and installations with a conceptual background, performance pieces and videos from the three young artists of South American descent, the gallery would like to provide the Hungarian audience with a possibility to connect to a previously inaccessible wave of contemporary art, which puts individuality in focus. Furthermore these artworks are very close to the traditions of progressive Central-Eastern European Art, as both are based on highly spontaneous, often improvisational conceptual elements. The defining urge to tell a story and the strong narrative intention are traits which establish further connections between the pieces of the exhibitors.
The towel sculptures of Daniel Jacoby, which make their debut at this exhibition stall and record outlines of objects, which are not present beneath, and together with the embroidered inscriptions they provide an insight on the exceptional, emblematic and enigmatic narrative methodology of the artist.
The video of Tamara Kuselman is about artistic crisis, in a broader universal sense about taking decisions, trust and hazard, while she documents and compresses the process when she consulted a fortune-teller, who predicts what will be the material of her next exhibition.
Miklós Vass records a performance without audience from different angles with different cameras in the gallery space. Sound and pantomime meet in his work, which are on view directly and raw on the monitors of the cameras which record the action.
With spending years in Barcelona Peruvian Daniel Jacoby and Argentinean Tamara Kuselman have already managed to establish an impressive Spanish career, with their works shown at Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, or MACBA in Barcelona. Lately they are involved in a growing number of significant European residency and educational programs, such as Daniel Jacoby’s residency in Casino Luxembourg in 2011, currently they are working in the Netherlands and in Germany. The works of Miklós Vass, an artist born in Argentina, currently residing in London, won’t be unfamiliar for Hungarian visitors, since he participated in numerous local exhibitions during his student years spent at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and after as well in Studio Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros and the P60 Gallery of Artpool.
The space of the group exhibition could easily be associated with a crime scene. The ephemeral contemporary works inhabiting the gallery could be all interpreted as clues and imprints, temporary constellations which invite the viewers to participate in a mysterious game.
The exhibited pieces equilibrate between presence and absence, the artists experiment with them to articulate „void” by contemporary means. The transitory and phenomenal lyrical practices are transposed into sensual reality which concentrates on mediation, which tries to fill in and reinterpret the optical and somatic void of space. The incorporeal poesy induced by the works suspend the interpretational expectations regarding objects, and their technical minimalism creates a tension of sensuality in the acoustic and physical space, whereas the playful metaphysical experiments of the artists put emotional chanels in motion.
Through the presentation of the objects and installations with a conceptual background, performance pieces and videos from the three young artists of South American descent, the gallery would like to provide the Hungarian audience with a possibility to connect to a previously inaccessible wave of contemporary art, which puts individuality in focus. Furthermore these artworks are very close to the traditions of progressive Central-Eastern European Art, as both are based on highly spontaneous, often improvisational conceptual elements. The defining urge to tell a story and the strong narrative intention are traits which establish further connections between the pieces of the exhibitors.
The towel sculptures of Daniel Jacoby, which make their debut at this exhibition stall and record outlines of objects, which are not present beneath, and together with the embroidered inscriptions they provide an insight on the exceptional, emblematic and enigmatic narrative methodology of the artist.
The video of Tamara Kuselman is about artistic crisis, in a broader universal sense about taking decisions, trust and hazard, while she documents and compresses the process when she consulted a fortune-teller, who predicts what will be the material of her next exhibition.
Miklós Vass records a performance without audience from different angles with different cameras in the gallery space. Sound and pantomime meet in his work, which are on view directly and raw on the monitors of the cameras which record the action.
With spending years in Barcelona Peruvian Daniel Jacoby and Argentinean Tamara Kuselman have already managed to establish an impressive Spanish career, with their works shown at Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, or MACBA in Barcelona. Lately they are involved in a growing number of significant European residency and educational programs, such as Daniel Jacoby’s residency in Casino Luxembourg in 2011, currently they are working in the Netherlands and in Germany. The works of Miklós Vass, an artist born in Argentina, currently residing in London, won’t be unfamiliar for Hungarian visitors, since he participated in numerous local exhibitions during his student years spent at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and after as well in Studio Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros and the P60 Gallery of Artpool.
