The HAB’s spring sculpture park exhibition creates a dialogue between two artists who approach the relationship between nature and man through timeless and ancient motifs. Whether it is the motifs of nature or prehistoric architectonics, the sculptures of Péter Gálhidy and Fábián Baráth reveal deep layers of common ground. In both of their works, the impact of man on nature and his own world is emphasised, but while Péter Gálhidy approaches this process from the motif of plants, Fábián Baráth approaches it from the motif of the built environment.
The works on display in the exhibition, entitled Humán effekt (The Human Effect), are the more serious pieces of the ecological approach that was present in Péter Gálhidy’s oeuvre from the beginning and then became increasingly pronounced. As he puts it, the confrontation with the magnitude of the polycrisis has also led him to express himself in more powerful and accessible terms. Fábián Baráth’s sculptures, meanwhile, approach the relationship between nature and human intervention from a different angle. His thinking is influenced by the relics of prehistoric architecture and ancient stelae, and his sculptures evoke the radiant power they exude.
Despite the apparent differences in expression between the two artists, there are also close similarities of spirit in the way they appear together, as both pay strong homage to prehistoric forces.