Péter Kecskés:

Elgabal/Narkissos

video installation and Photographs

The exhibition

Artist talk

Supporters of the exhibition

Art pieces in the exhibition

The artist

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Regularly exhibiting his work for 20 years in Hungary and abroad, Péter Kecskés is an artist active in many fields. Besides winning a large number of awards with his works, he also explores the possibilities of the interrelations of poetry and philosophy. Best known for his photographs, at Videospace Budapest Kecskés will now present a series of photos, and a video installation that is one of his early works but has never been exhibited before. In this show, Kecskés reveals the genesis of his work, and offers an insight into the logic of the history of the process of this genesis.

Based on the interrelations of visuality and textuality, Kecskés‘s complex works are a special blend of poetic and theoreical vision. In his works one can sense an immense erudition in philosophy and art theory, which determine the highly complex thinking and ideas of this artist. The central work of this exhibition titled Elgabal/Narkissos is an installation where a video is projected from two sides onto a large piece of translucent canvas hanging in the exhibition space.

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Artist Talk

6 March, 2009 (Friday), 7 pm
guests:
Péter Kecskés, Bálint Szombathy, Zsolt Kozma

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Péter Kecskés

born in Budapest in 1972

more information about the artist and his works: http://kecskespetermate.googlepages.com

Solo Shows (Selection)

• 2008 - "One Day at a Time...", KAS Galéria
• 2007 - "Eikon Eidosz Eidolon" (Kasek Rolanddal), Óbudai Pincegaléria, Budapest
• 2006 - "Sophia TV", Galerie Klientierklinik, Berlin
• 2004- "Test-teszt-túrák" (El Kazovszkijjal és Fehér Zoltánnal), Bartók '32 Galéria, Budapest
• 2002 - „ESSENTIA EXALTATA”, Karinthy Szalon, Budapest
• 2000 - ˝Hieroglyphica Reformata;˝, Galeria Teatru Situacji , Krakkó
• 1999 - ˝ Dereprezentáció˝, Magyar Fotográfusok Háza, Budapest
• 1998 - Bolt Galéria, Budapest (katalógus)
• 1993 - Bartók 32 Galéria, Budapest (katalógus)
• 1989 - Fiatal Művészek Klubja, Budapest

Participations (Selection)

2007
• "Fotoneon print válogatás", Gödör Klub, Budapest
"Art is Not Silent', Kortárs Művészeti Intézet, Dunaújváros
"Hódolat a Mesternek", Aula Galéria, Debrecen
2006
• "Fényes és sötét József Attila", József Attila Múzeum, Makó, Espersit-ház
• "Fényes és sötét", Pand Paulus Galéria, Schiedam, Hollandia / katalógus
• "Karácsonyi kiállítás", KAS Galéria, Budapest
2005
• "Matricák - válogatás a biennálé anyagából", Palikán Galéria, Székesfehérvár
• "Omphalos ; Magical Picture Book", Walcot Chapel, Bath, Anglia / katalógus
• "Árnyékkötők", Artpool P60 Galéria, Budapest / könyv és CD-ROM
• "Fotoneon", Művészet Malom, Szentendre

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press images to download:

Péter Kecskés: Elgabal/Narkissos /
still from the installation

screen JPG / 74 KB
print JPG / 320 KB
print TIF / 6,5 MB
To use only in connection with the exhibition at Videospace Budapest mentioning the following credits:
© Péter Kecskés: Elgabal/Narkissos, still from the installation, Videospace Budapest 2009

Kecskés Péter: Essentia exaltata /
images from the photo series

Péter Kecskés screen JPG / 73 KB
print JPG / 280 KB
print TIF / 6,5 MB

screen JPG / 137 KB
print JPG / 738 KB
print TIF / 4,5 MB
To use only in connection with the exhibition at Videospace Budapest mentioning the following credits:
© Péter Kecskés: Essentia exaltata, photography, Videospace Budapest 2009

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