Golden Lion for the best national participation at 52 Venice Biennial is being given to the Hungarian Pavilion featuring the artist Andreas Fogarasi, curated by Katalin Timár
where architecture and cultural history are deployed to generate intelligent and poetic relations between content, visual language and strucural display. The Jury also considers important the artist’s approach to modernity, its utopias and failures in the context of a shared history
Andreas Fogarasi, Kultur und Freizeit, Video installation, 2007
Photos: Bert de Leenheer
Andreas Fogarasi Kultur und Freizeit consists of a series of single channel videos, all showing the current state of cultural centres in contemporary Budapest, projected in separate black boxes which both physically and structurally include the spectators. They function as signifiers for a contemporary separation between mass culture and popular cultures, and their respective institutional frameworks, as opposed to high culture and its locations.
Andreas Fogarasi, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1977. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
