This was his last exhibition before his death, so we are here to send him a message with works that reflect on him.
The largest wall of the Artus is covered with Emese Benczúr’s million scaled, thread-stitched, exceptionally light paper texts “Try to stay sensitive”. If you pass by, the slightest movement of the air will cause the confetti pieces to gently glide, then gently sweep back in a gentle motion until the next breeze arrives….
The project “Bodóságok” (Spatial constructions) by Zsófi Dévai’s AKG students, made of decomposable materials, expresses the Bodóczkys’ life’s vocation: playful experiential learning is the path itself, the art itself….
Kati Glaser is an animation director, but she is also an excellent seamstress, among other things, of balloons, and her love of flying in her life also comes from Bodó. In Artus, she is making a giant sculpture/air balloon that holds its shape by airbrushing, modelled on Bodóczky’s head looking up at the sky – “I’ll turn around in your head”.
“Itus Reditus” – back and forth, I will return – is an early Christian inscription engraved in stone, originally made for Bodó at his request from glass letters by Zsuzsa Formanek. The glass words are repeated a million times in the Arthurian text, intertwined to form a glass curtain, symbolising infinity.