Martin
Chramosta
Chramosta
Aper
28.10.
20 – 1. 12. 20
Horizont
Gallery
Zichy
Jenő u. 32
Budapest
Hermits
are mountain people. They want communion with nature. While wandering
around they look for „the other“ – they collect „the
substance“. The organic melts into the inorganic. A temporary
shelter, a recycled lay-by is built. There is no decoration in this
place, only scarcity on the walls – a reflection of the landscape.
are mountain people. They want communion with nature. While wandering
around they look for „the other“ – they collect „the
substance“. The organic melts into the inorganic. A temporary
shelter, a recycled lay-by is built. There is no decoration in this
place, only scarcity on the walls – a reflection of the landscape.
The
Aper-state
is an act of carrying, piling and clearing. The Aper-space
is a tough one. The catalogue of substances first appears under the
white veil after the frost and the thawing. Fence residues, wired
promontories, prey, plunder, frozen cement pillows, a lumberman’s
buck – mementos for the lack of otherness.
On
the Wanderung in the outside Aper-space
the glaciers get tired and bow, they become frail and turn into palms
on the fences by the new-freezing-time. From the fences new gates
arise. The hermit starts to redraw the shelter. In the outline of the
wire, the mountains merge with the plains, they create new images:
axes with the bird’s wings, palms with the tulips, name plates of
the handcraft-tools with the wire-gingerbread-hearts.
The
hermit’s ceramic palms unite burned baroque reflections and weird
folklore traditions. They are the gauntlet to overproduction.
Reworking, re-welding the residues into neo-symbolisms. Aper
is the Hungarian „clean room”, the decorated space of absence,
where the hermits give it up to be without snow, where with the dry
lines and from their savings and with their gauntness they might
build a home in the end. –
Kinga
Tóth
(Kinga
Tóth’s
text-associations for Martin Chramosta’s exhibition Aper
– with a special thank for the personal talk)
Note
from the Artist
Aper
is a rarely used german word from the alpine regions. It means snow
free.
The
exhibition Aper
examines a hypothetical outdoors
in the rooms of Horizont Gallery. In the presentation, found objects
from public space engage with handcrafted applications. Ceramics and
works made from scrap metal add symbolist layers to the environmenal
statements and generate a visual narrative with ingredients from art
history, alpine and central european regionalisms, artisanal
expressionism and superstition. –
Martin Chramosta