ISTVÁN CSÁKANY DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
Opening: 18. November 2014, 19h Exhibition Duration: 19. November 2014 – 10. January 2015
Since being exhibited at the dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, István Csákány is seen as one of the most important young Hungarian artists. He created the works leading up to the installation Ghost Keeping that was shown there while he was an artist in residence at the Krinzinger programme in Petömihalyfa, Hungary in 2011. In his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Krinzinger he is now presenting new pieces that he has incorporated in a large-scale spatial transformation.
In his work, Csakany attempts to reinterpret the notion of sculpture and to also expand it by creating enormous installations. These more recent instinctive, poetic installations are laden with dark nuances and abstruse features. The strategy of appropriating objects as in Ghost Keeping is comprised and expanded in the newer pieces. Equally decisive for his oeuvre is the theme of work, workers (in a social sense) in conjunction with the artist and his artistic career.
