The Power of Light

"Schadographs"

08. November 2000. – 05. December
MegnyitóOpening: November 8, 2000, 6:00 pm

All good photographs, never mind when, by whom, with whatever technique they were taken, tend to be a sort of a light-accumulator, which are endowed with the quality to store and re-emanate that particular light-energy they have absorbed. That’s why we feel that peculiar thrill when we happen to meet any of them.

Bad or indifferent photographs, on the other hand, are like black holes.

They absorb everything, but they never ever radiate back anything.

The fotograms of the painter Christian Schad – let’s call them "schadographs" – are good photo-graphs. They preserve and emanate signs across time and space from the era of the Dada and Surrealism.

Pictures never ever seen Hungary are waiting for spectators with sensitive antennae in Mai House.

Károly Kincses