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J谩nos Sug谩r: Horizontal Underground

04 Apr, 2023 - 28 Apr, 2023
If we look through J谩nos Sug谩r鈥檚 oeuvre, especially his titles and other intertexts that appear in his present works, or even learn or deduce from somewhere what kind of objects he collects (continuously, for decades), it becomes clear to us that he is a fan of human openness, of risk-seeking, experimental lateral thinking and the solutions that emerge as a result. There is no doubt that these ideas, tricks and inventions are entertaining, even fascinating. If we look at it from this angle, Sug谩r is in fact a humanist, in the Andr茅 Kert茅sz sense: he likes to show, to observe and at the same time to draw attention to people, to the things they invent. Unlike Kert茅sz, however, what he does is not a representational art: lateral thinking and related phenomena are present in his oeuvre not only as a reference and a theme, but primarily as a working method and a creative intention. In other words, in his own words, 鈥渋f one鈥檚 mindset opens up under the influence of, say, a provocative work of art, and once or twice realises that there is such a thing as an 鈥榓ha鈥 experience, one is better able to start solving future problems and to learn. That鈥檚 what art is about. It鈥檚 about how to continually manifest this openness of mind, how to face new, non-referential crises. There are many other levels or degrees of usefulness of art, but its main role, I feel, is to create a conflict that needs to be resolved somehow, and from that resolution to create some kind of immunity that can be used in a later situation.鈥



If we look through J谩nos Sug谩r鈥檚 oeuvre, especially his titles and other intertexts that appear in his present works, or even learn or deduce from somewhere what kind of objects he collects (continuously, for decades), it becomes clear to us that he is a fan of human openness, of risk-seeking, experimental lateral thinking and the solutions that emerge as a result. There is no doubt that these ideas, tricks and inventions are entertaining, even fascinating. If we look at it from this angle, Sug谩r is in fact a humanist, in the Andr茅 Kert茅sz sense: he likes to show, to observe and at the same time to draw attention to people, to the things they invent. Unlike Kert茅sz, however, what he does is not a representational art: lateral thinking and related phenomena are present in his oeuvre not only as a reference and a theme, but primarily as a working method and a creative intention. In other words, in his own words, 鈥渋f one鈥檚 mindset opens up under the influence of, say, a provocative work of art, and once or twice realises that there is such a thing as an 鈥榓ha鈥 experience, one is better able to start solving future problems and to learn. That鈥檚 what art is about. It鈥檚 about how to continually manifest this openness of mind, how to face new, non-referential crises. There are many other levels or degrees of usefulness of art, but its main role, I feel, is to create a conflict that needs to be resolved somehow, and from that resolution to create some kind of immunity that can be used in a later situation.鈥



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Tuesday - Friday
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Képíró utca 5 Budapest, Hungary 1053

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