Rock, paper, scissors… rock, sounds the well-known children’s game, where the symbols shaped by our hands decide whether the stone wraps the paper, the paper is cut by the scissors, and the edge of the scissors is cut by the stone, recalling the uninterrupted cycle of life in a reduced form of symbols. It is no coincidence that, although with varying motifs, the hand-pointer decision-making game has been known in Eastern cultures since at least 2000 years in the Chinese Han Dynasty.
The title of the exhibition of the latest works of graphic artist Botond András Kiss refers specifically to the artist’s working materials: stone, paper and scissors, whose broad spectrum of uses and wide range of meanings largely determine Kiss’s working method and artistic approach.