Hungary

Project Partner:
Cork Civic Trust

Venue: Cork Vision Centre @ St. Peter’s

Date: 2 – 26 February 2005

Project Description:
The second exhibition of the ‘Enlargement’ series featured the work of two highly respected but radically different artists from Hungary: Maria Lugossy and József Gaál.

Working in stone, steel, bronze and glass, internationally acclaimed sculptor Maria Lugossy addressed a variety of themes, including memory and denial and the cycle of birth, life and death, in her work. Ranging from sculptures of small dimensions to monumental public works, the themes of the dichotomy of violence and love and suffering and hope recur throughout her work. Strikingly visual, her work is a tactile exploration that continuously evokes a strong response.

Hungary Hungary

‘Existing in Dream’, new works created for the Cork Vision Centre by József Gaál, was a collection of paintings of the artist’s vision of the spirits that live and breath within us. Gaal’s creatures seem to appear from a gigantic labyrinth as if they have been treading mythical corridors for centuries, only to evoke forgotten feelings or sensations. Working largely with acrylics, Gaal’s huge canvases were a counterweight yet complementary to Lugossy’s powerful sculpture.

During the course of the exhibition, Cork Civic Trust, in association with the Triskel, presented a series of three films by contemporary Hungarian Directors.