"The possibilities of engagement with black and with white are infinite but not boundless. What can be grasped even through common sense – that colours, for example, fall outside of boundaries – while the rest belongs to the realm of science and philosophy. “Black or White”, “Yes or No”, “Positive or Negative”– such common decisions determine the course of our lives while everything else that is to be found between the two poles provides their content. The works of art on show at this exhibition find their place either somewhere between the two extremes or consciously examine the relationship between the two.
This exhibition is already the third one organised in the museum in Óbuda by the Open Structures Arts Association (Nyílt Struktúrák Művészeti Egyesület).
According to another optical-theoretical commonplace, neither black nor white is a colour: one is the complete lack of colour and light (a lurid black surface absorbs light, while the other is the sum of all the colours of the spectrum, or light itself. In reality and in artistic practice, neither perfect black nor perfect white exists: at most there are paints of varying quality and mixtures of these, and countless possible observers whose eyes and psychological functioning, feelings and thinking, receive the spectacle – a given work of art - in various ways."
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Vasarely Museum
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09.06.2007