Network of Spaces installation

BBB Eleven Autumn 2020, 1 Artist 1 Gallery, Bor és Kézműves Gallery, Budapest

My installation invites the viewer into a network of intertwined spaces. Walking along Bartók Béla street, we stop in front of the Bor és Kézműves Gallery. Looking through the window, we can see the interior, where a new window faces a garden, we have never seen before. Looking at a painting, our memories, feelings and thoughts begins to activate even if they are long forgotten. A work of art can open up new worlds, and it all carry on in our imagination.

During the Renaissance, a painting was considered as a window cut into the wall through which a slice of reality become visible. Leon Battista Alberti states in his work ‘On Painting’ in 1436 that “First of all, on the surface on which I am going to paint, I draw a rectangle of whatever size I want, which I regard as an open window through which the subject to be painted is seen.”

This window is now closed, but we can see through it. A situation of ‘looking through the window’ is well known for us now as our lives seem to be changing.