In Sic, Korniss encountered the still living and rich culture of traditional village communities in many areas of the Carpathian Basin and he dedicated his career to capturing this disappearing world for future generations. Sic is thus the beginning of everything, the origin to which Korniss has been returning regularly over past decades and to which he still returns to this day. Korniss’s work in Sic, spanning fifty-five years, is the longest photographic project in the history of photography in Hungary and is outstanding on both a Hungarian and a worldwide platform.
The exhibition at the Várfok Gallery spans Korniss’s first pictures taken in dance houses and ‘spinneries’ where peasant people, especially women, gathered to embroider or weave, to his photographs of the globalised, modernised world of today. The show is exceptional as it is the first Korniss exhibition of exclusively colour photographs, the larger part of which were taken in the last two years.
The Várfok Gallery’s exhibition will also pay tribute to the memory of Mari Boldizsár of Sic, the mother of Korniss’s goddaughter, who died in 2021.