János GécziUpcycling

In the case of artists working in several genres and especially in several artistic disciplines, we tend to focus on "mundane" questions that are so uninteresting that we tend to think about which is more important for them, which is more significant for them, whether it is poetry or a novel, literature or fine art and how to name it: as poet, as visual artist, or rather as rose researcher, and place it in the classifying repositories of our consciousness.

From the very beginning of his creative career, János Géczi has moved out into the realm of fine art,and he is concerned with the specific existence and function of images, and the visual existence of the carriers and mediators of literary texts. Part of these searches is also the provocation and excitation of creative and receptive reflexes, the obstruction of the confusion of sign and meaning, the intention to derail the meaning-making automatisms. (...)

István Ladányi
Quoted from the opening of János Géczi's exhibition at Pannon University
13 May 2014

Photos by Gábor Gáspár

Opening speech by Tibor Benjamin Szabó