Budapest?s Museum of Fine Arts has organised the exhibition of sculptures by artists from European Union member states on the occasion of Hungary?s Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2011. The 25 sculptures have been erected on the 20,000-square-metre surface of the City Park Lake, much like a similar show of work by Hungarian sculptors to mark the millennium in 2000. Visitors to the lake can get a closer look at the sculptures by rowboat.
Perhaps the most poetic of the sculptures is a transparent human form crafted of metal letters by the artist Jaume Plensa from Barcelona.
Brigitte Kowanz has taken advantage of the movement of the water on the lake with a line of bright orange buoys strung together.
The Dutchman Paul Segers? floating fortress and the sinking ?Atlantis? shanty of Tea Mäkipää of Finland both show the same abandonment, but from different ends of the temporal scale.
The Hungarian Balázs Kicsiny?s stage-like transportation sculpture shows the start of the journey and the return home, touching the intersecting point of time and space.
Author: Eszter Götz
Photos: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
