| The objective of KissPál’s videocamera
has a maximum picture angle of 40 degrees. This means that the rest
of the world, the remaining 320 degrees are always out of sight.
When he hits the red button, he usually stays in this invisible
part of the world. In spite of this, his concern is to make visible
this hidden view by transforming the surface that splits the world
in two into a semi-transparent mirror. This is the way he creates
a projected image from a captured one, an installation from a recording,
as the CCD, the interface between the to worlds becomes sensitive
on each side, able to hold both the impressions of the visible and
the non-visible. In western tradition there are many ways and attitudes
to perform this transformation, from the radicality of the modern
to the subversivity of the postmodern. All of them are direct methods
in opposition to the indirect inductivity applied for instance by
the Zen.
Through his efforts to widen the view towards a total picture angle,
he tries and achieves an inductive gestuality that captures the
existence behind the camera, including the person with his fingers
on the red button, and that other person watching the act of recording,
thus offering the viewer a simultaneous perception of the framed
view that has been recorded and the world behind.
— Maria Marcos
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Vision, Kunsthalle
Budapest; Unstable Narratives, Hartware Kunstverein, Dortmund; On
my way to Timbuctoo, IFA, Berlin/ Bonn; 2001: 49a Biennale di Venezia;
14. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart; 2000: Solitude in Museum, Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart/ Musee d`art moderne, Saint Etienne; 1999: Toot Festival
HTBA, Hull, England; Break 21th International Festival of Young Independent
Artists, Ljubljana; 1998: ROOT Festival, Hull, England.
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