Found, the “Czernowitzer Austria“ As reported by Dr. Sergij Osatschuk from Czernowitz, on 8th May 2003, during construction work in the courtyard of the former state and trade museum located on the corner of Liliengasse and Mickiewiczgasse, the torso of the Austria Statue was unearthed, which, until the end of the first world war, has...

Austria project. Our concept deals with two aspects with which every political (more or less relevant) sculpture is being confronted when for various reasons it has been removed from the spot where it originally was placed. Already immediately after its removal the sculpture finds itself in a precarious ‘existential’ situation. It can be destroyed, or...

Austria (Europe) has lost it’s head The title itself and the project idea are a broad field that offers many possibilities for selfreflection and general considerations about the past, present and future. Art teaches, motivates action and enlightens even if in the beginning it may incomprehensible. In particular the complexity of ‘understanding’ stimulates curiosity and...

Soap opera What, wherefore, why Delighted I look at the delivered sculpture: ‘antique’, an original antique. Such a thing is usually recovered near my home from the bottom of the Black Sea. Only this here – that is plaster, isn’t it? One of ten plaster copies. The one who once in sweet abandon stood on...

  Monument of No Erase A monument to the impossibility of disposal The classical sculpturing is one of the most costly artforms that is maybe only topped by land-art or Hollywood. Basically it is so expensive because its nature is in permanence. As our long lasting materials are costly only the Power can finace itself...

(No) Perfect world conception In fact I was tired of all identity discourses when Barbara and Abbe first visited me in Budapest. I am currently searching for new ways to exchange these questions (that for years we called ‘identity problem’) finally for something else in art. In a certain sense I have for years exploited...

THE CONVENTION OF ALLEGORIA Following WorldNet Dictionary ALLEGORY is an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances Yes, but what does the Miss of a wet t-shirt represent? Is she again a symbol of fertility? These days an allegory of Austria may offend somebody’s feelings, because if...

AUSTRIA PROJEKT My starting point for the project was: 1. I’ve dealt with the idea of ‘nation’ in some of my previous pieces and it has been something I’ve been thinking about quite often although mostly in negtive terms. ‘Nation’ as an idea that politicians use to create hatred and control people. That notion can...

“Czernowitzer Austria” A Video Intervention and Interaction with “Austria” The projection surface is an allegorical female figure, a copy of a monument symbolizing “Austria” which was first erected on the main plaza of the capital of an occupied nation on the centennial of the date of occupation. Projections are performed from several angles, using diverse...

Symbols (not only) in the public space They can be seen everywhere – the symbols of the Power or the system, symbols of wealth or the persons-cult or simply just symbols of vanity. Are they at all in our awarenes? Does one have to explain symbols or are they making themselves transparent? What are they...