At the intersection points of the exhibition, the premonition or experience of loss appears as a visual metaphor, on which the artists reflect with different techniques, such “memories of the book ” as a book statue, a visual poem, a bookshelf with logs,— or else overwrite this vision, as with a gothic-pixellated, remodelled typeface.

Books of fate with interlacing pages and fragmentary texts; transformed objects that still resemble books; scrapped bulletins as wells of time, covered with cloud papers in a mysteriously beautiful land of books; a void dug into a wartime book of poetry; lines of a poem running around in circles—so many contemporary reflections projected onto “blind books,” reinforcing the intellectual horizon of the book.

Yet, whether it is a case of typographical distancing or one of lyrical approach, the exhibition as a whole bears testimony to the idea that a book is the most beautiful form of solitude.

The exhibition is accompanied by a variety of side events.

On display until 22 March 2015

Source: mucsarnok.hu

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