"In Ferencz S. Apor’s works we mostly meet with the "revival" of György Klösz’s photographs. The artist has developed two separate techniques, one for the larger pieces and another for the smaller.In some of the smaller works, he represents through the "filter" of the present the certain details of the photos printed on paper.
The process of “filtration” is to be understood literally: the artist places a dulled glass in front of the photographs, and in black "windows" positioned in the centre of the works he places the interpretation of the original picture.
The larger works have been realized using a more traditional method of creating a picture: the photograph, printed on a traditionally primed canvas, provides the ground on which the artist over-paints an interpretation, using acrylic, breaking off with the black and white world of the original photograph.
With knowledge of the applied technique we can ask ourselves the following questions: what element of the old photographs fascinates the artist, and what kind of present-past relation is assumed by their interpretation or "revival"?
Source and more info about the artist: Chinese Characters
26.03.2008