Most of the artworks and collages for the exhibition were created recently. Collage is one of the characteristic genres of the avant-garde art movements of the 20th century. The technique was often used by cubists, dadaists and surrealists.
Among the famous collage artists, we will only mention the names of Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Lajos Kassák, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Villeglé... The work of the collage artists is connected to pop art, graffiti and street art. Ottó Fenyvesi has been making collages for more than forty years, his first works were inspired by punk fanzines. Since then he has become increasingly involved in this genre. He lives and works on the shores of Lake Balaton, in Lovas.
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Ottó Fenyvesi on His Collages:
“I perceive reality as a kind of collage. In the traditional, narrative universe, there was always a first and last chapter, a beginning and a provisional end, and there were higher-order rules that governed individual cases, with the story typically concluding with some form of moral lesson. In contrast stands the social reality of recent decades, mediated by the digital world—where events occur simultaneously, diverse intentions prevail, and happenings often follow one another in unpredictable ways, clearly lacking any definitive beginning or end within given frameworks.
Visual media and what I call ‘communicative anarchy’ fragment and diversify human perception. The transformations in relations of production, power, and experience converge towards a reshaping of the material foundations of social life, space, and time. The flow-space of the information age dominates human culture. Time becomes timeless, as the social tendency towards the technological annihilation of time displaces the temporal logic of the industrial era.
Capital circulates, power directs, and electronic communication spirals through the currents of exchange that unfold between selected, distant locations, while fragmented experience remains tied to place. Technology compresses time into a few random moments, thus disrupting the flow of society and ‘dehistoricising’ history. At the same time, today’s virtuality dismantles and disembodies social relationships. This is the problem I try to grasp with my own artistic instincts and abilities. (…)”
The exhibition is on view until 24 August 2025.
