Most of the artworks and collages for the exhibition were created recently. Ottó Fenyvesi has been making collages for over forty years, his first works were inspired by punk fanzines. Since then he has become more and more involved in this genre. He lives and works on the shores of Lake Balaton, in Lovas.
“I see reality as a kind of collage. In the traditional narrative universe, there was always a first and a last chapter, a beginning and a provisional end, and there were higher rules that determined each case, and the story was concluded by some kind of lesson. This contrasts with the social reality of recent decades, mediated by the digital world, in which events are simultaneous, with different intentions, and often follow one another in unforeseen ways, and apparently without a defining beginning or end within a given framework.
Visual media, the “anarchy of communication”, fragments and diversifies human perception. Changes in the relations of production, power and experience converge towards a transformation of the material foundations of social life, space and time. The flow field of the information age dominates human culture. Time is becoming timeless as the social trend towards the annihilation of time by technology displaces the time logic of the industrial age. Capital circulates, power controls, electronic communication flows through the currents of exchange between selected, remote locations, while fragmented experience remains fixed.
Time is becoming timeless as the social trend towards the destruction of time by technology displaces the time logic of the industrial age. Capital circulates, power controls, electronic communication flows through the currents of exchange between selected, remote locations, while fragmented experience remains fixed. Technology compresses time into a few random moments, disrupting the flow of society and ‘dehistoricising’ history. At the same time, the virtuality of our times dismantles and disembodies social relations. This is a problem I try to address with my own artistic instincts and skills.”
Ottó Fenyvesi