The Miniatures exhibition at the Viziváros Gallery invites you on a special artistic journey, where tiny works of art are on display. Even in small formats, artists convey their ideas with extraordinary detail and creativity. The event aims to show that art can be a great experience even at the smallest scale.
PARS PRO TOTO // The literal meaning of this old Latin statement is: part instead of whole. In fact, it is a form of communication in which a concept or something is referred to by naming its smaller component, the unity of a smaller part.
The concept is familiar in political science, geography, theology, where we can draw conclusions about the properties of the whole from a smaller dimensional component, ultimately by a kind of symbolist approach.
In this way, from the sub-phenomenon of the mini-pictures of contemporary painters, the view from the Water Town Gallery, we can draw fundamental lessons – and of course experience – about the state of the whole, i.e. contemporary Hungarian painting. Here too, the pars pro toto applies.
Balázs Feledy
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