GÁBOR KOÓS: GAZING INTO DARKNESS

GÁBOR KOÓS: GAZING INTO DARKNESS

7 February 2024 – 14 March 2024

Remarks by: Fehér Dávid

In the autumn of 2023, Gábor Koós opened an exhibition of the same title at the Szent István Király Museum in Székesfehérvár, where a site–specific installation was built up from his latest paintings inspired by the Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki‘s In Praise of Shadows.

The exhibition space of the King Stephen Museum in Országzászló Square is an extremely bright space, due to its characteristic skylights, and this makes it a very calming space, as Tanizaki explains in his essay. Light enters the space through the 24 windows in the ceiling – these 24 windows are central to the Székesfehérvár installation.

To compensate for the brightness of the space, Koós placed a surface opposite the light, i.e. the windows, which was able to absorb as much light as possible. It was a radical gesture that raised the question of how the aura of an entire space could be changed.

The exhibition now opening in the Inda Gallery’s project room is an exciting adaptation of this exhibition, which is also an experiment in how the same paintings work by changing the space, and therefore the light.

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