WORKS
- O Freunde, nicht diese Töne…
- The De Bruin-Heijns
- Revisiting the 1st m²
- Simsalabim
- 1981 – 1987
- From Death Till Birth
- I am that always angry child…
- No Means No
- Duty of Memory Beyond Splendour of Oblivion
- A Short Story About the Beginning of the Word
- Das Buch
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The exhibition by Ištvan Išt Huzjan, entitled after the mirrored introduction to Ode To Joy written by Friedrich Schiller, investigates, through the idea of language, the beauty and concerns of human co-existence within the given cultural constructs, such as: partnership, family and nation.
Dealing with diverse media (painting, performance, video and sound) and deconstructing languages that these medias inhabit, the artist builds up a new kind of ‘exhibition community’.
Huzjan’s installation can be seen as a collage where there are no more layers one on top of each other in search for hierarchical structure, but rather as a parallel composition of artworks, concluded within them selves redefining the preexisting borders of the gallery space.
The relationship between the pieces in the installation creates a feeling of equality, provoking a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork.
For the exhibition at Galerie Mirko Mayer Ištvan Išt Huzjan has produced three performances.
The performances took place outside of the gallery. With these public interventions the artist has attempted to reconnect the exhibition space with the rhythm and reality of everyday Cologne. The artist as an intermediator established his position regarding the relationship between the role of the gallery and the European urban environment.
As if the exhibition space plays the role of a landed spacecraft, the artist left the capsule and the first thing he needed to do was to position himself geographically. In order to do so Ištvan Išt Huzjan has chosen the Dom, the cathedral of Cologne as his central orientation point.
ORIENTATION POINT
At exactly 06.36 a.m. C.E.T. in the month of march 2011, the artist walks to the bank of the river Rhein within the limits of the city centre. He takes a photograph of the sunrise with the cathedral as a central point in the composition. Later this photograph is turned into a postcard that is distributed free of charge to the inhabitants of the city of Cologne.
ERASING COLOGNE
Prior to the opening of the exhibition the artist brings a mirror (size 100 x 50 cm.) to the east side bank of the river Rhein and mirrors the image of the cathedral on the west side of the river. In slow gentle vertical brush strokes the artist slowly erases the mirrored image with white paint. After the erasing, the painted mirror is inserted into a plaster cube and is positioned inside the gallery. It now functions as a monumental sculpture.
ODE TO JOY
Ištvan Išt Huzjan asked Omur Munzur, baritone singer of the city opera, to sing for him in front of the Dom cathedral in his mother tongue, the Turkish language. The singer sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony »Ode To Joy«. The sound of the performance was recorded and turned into the exhibition’s sound piece.
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