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Catastrophe Situations by Ákos Birkás presents a group of works employing the format of single-panel comic that have remained virtually unknown and were last seen in public nearly half a century ago. The eponymous series was produced in 1978 in parallel with the conceptual photographic works titled Picture and Viewer, which marked the culmination of Birkás’s three-year artistic project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, exploring the theoretical and practical relations between museum and art, painting and photography, spectator and artwork, text and image. These last works addressed the literal and metaphorical distance between viewer and picture, the possibility and impossibility of a genuine encounter or dialogue with historical artworks, considering the material and immaterial, artistic, institutional, discursive as well as social layers that shape or inhibit the immediacy of this connection. In several photographs, viewer-models or the artist himself appear before sacra…
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Catastrophe Situations by Ákos Birkás presents a group of works employing the format of single-panel comic that have remained virtually unknown and were last seen in public nearly half a century ago. The eponymous series was produced in 1978 in parallel with the conceptual photographic works titled Picture and Viewer, which marked the culmination of Birkás’s three-year artistic project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, exploring the theoretical and practical relations between museum and art, painting and photography, spectator and artwork, text and image. These last works addressed the literal and metaphorical distance between viewer and picture, the possibility and impossibility of a genuine encounter or dialogue with historical artworks, considering the material and immaterial, artistic, institutional, discursive as well as social layers that shape or inhibit the immediacy of this connection. In several photographs, viewer-models or the artist himself appear before sacra…
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