Falak, rétegek II/1 • Walls and Layers II/1 2009, 100×100 cm, bubble-jet
KOVÁTS BORBÁLA kiállítása
Ñ Centrális erő 1. • Central force 1
(részlet • detail)
2012. október 3 – november 5.
pieces, and the extraneousness of digital technique. This we perceive as the radical generalization of personal experience, however behind the technique, in the divided geometry of the composition we can divine the creator. Kováts further develops here her conception of avantgarde pictures: she uses methods which raise questions concerning the possibilities and/or the impossibilities of the factual presentation and even living through experience external reality. György Jerovetz (translation: András Gellért)
Centrális erő 1. • Central force 1, 2012, 100×100 cm, bubble-jet
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aradox gathers a breathing body of experience in the works of Borbála Kováts. She makes prints from photos depicting everyday experience through employing the subtlest technique: digital fitment. However instead of applying the expected and usual montage method she doesn’t use her raw material in direct interpretative manner – in most cases she doesn’t “cut out” figural details from it. It seems like her attention is focused mainly on the shaping methods and the marginal details. She constructs her large-scale works from these relatively small compositional elements. Besides the formal sovereignty of the surfaces, the photo as medium and source material is discernible although its depicted subject remains sub rosa. We are visually conditioned to look for the forms of visible reality, but the pictures’ components, yielding their independence arrange into free geometrical compositions, as though the visualized work absconded right before our very eyes only to transform into the artist’s strictly structured still geometrically liberal vision. The contradiction presents itself in a different way if we think about both the inwardness of the undefinable reminiscences, namely the photo