Light Path

07. March 2015. – 05. April
MegnyitóOpening: March 6, 2015, 6:00 pm
MegnyitjákRemarks by: Farkas Ádám, Kroó Norbert
The physical and spiritual dimension of light has assumed a crucial role in the oeuvre of Csáji. Assuming a key role from the 1960s onwards as artist and organiser of the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde, he initially followed the idiom of Surrealist and organic form-creation and gesture painting, and gradually moved on to works interpreted by means of, and conceived in, light, such as light grids, plastic works illuminated with changing light, and holograms.

Following the tradition of László Moholy-Nagy, Victor Vasarely, Nicolas Schöffer and György Kepes in exploring the relationship of art and science, Csáji has since the mid-1970s co-operated with the Central Research Institute for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in researching the artistic role of laser. He developed a new procedure for transforming images, the method and means for superposition which exploits the monochromatic properties of laser light.

The exhibition Light Path, Ethereal Lights reveals the relations and perspectives of a wide-ranging oeuvre that integrates an effort to produce new forms with scientific experiment.