Can the creature create?, is the question posed by Endre Kecső’s exhibition Androgyn. Drawing on the visual worlds of sculpture and architecture, the paintings, with their reduced palette derived from Greek vases, bring ancient creatures to life in a way that is typical of Kecső, not merely for the sake of presentation, but as a kind of thought experiment: can representation result in real presence?
More simply: do the works affect reality and, if so, can the works be considered creators, so that the Pygmalion story can take on a new meaning, where the artist’s love is not a work of art but the process of creation itself.
Kecső would like the answer to these questions to be yes, because then we can go back to the Platonic utopia, to the golden age of the past, when two parties existed as one, complete and unbroken.