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?The work of Attila Csörgő explores the adjoining territories of art and science. He makes experiments with carefully engineered and meticulously adjusted devices of his own design. His works attest to a mindset that is playful and humorous, as well as philosophical,? Mudam says of the show.
?The work of Csörgő leads us into a universe of scientific exploration that is passionate while also expressing the joy, humor, and detachment proper to artistic creation. He often immerses himself for months into intricate problems of mathematics, physics or projective geometry, creating works that demonstrate possible solutions to these problems. At other times, he constructs special cameras to capture reality on pictures never seen before. He is engaged in optical illusions generated by the interaction of light and movement - surprising and unexpected physical phenomena that shatter the viewer's belief in apparently obvious physical laws.?
Csörgő?s represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and he was awarded the Munkácsy Prize, Hungary?s highest acknowledgement for professionals in the fine arts, in 2001. His work showed at the Istanbul Biennale in 2003 and at the Sydney Biennale in 2008. Csörgő?s piece Moebius Space won the Nam June Paik Prize in 2008.
The exhibition, called Archimedean Point, runs until January 23, 2011. A book covering the past 20 years of Csörgő?s work has been published to coincide with the show.
