With works and exhibitions by Little Warsaw the viewer enters carefully prepared, designed and directed situations, where the creative object operates as part of the discursive space and context conceived for it.
András Gálik and Bálint Havas employ 19th-century ornamental and
monument sculpture as the formal and communicative starting point for their activity – the idiom that was the last to create a common, consensual narrative, the last incarnation of the union of memory and history.
In the case of Flag an abundance of historical, social and even political connotations come to mind almost mechanically; references to ties with the fabric of the city and the common memory become obvious –
sometimes recollections of very personal links. The work is both a filter and a catalyst of possible readings that seem to operate on various levels.
It functions as an anonymous and ephemeral monument in the quasi-public space of the exhibition room, the vacuum of the white cube, a sign lifted out of its customary environment and thus becoming self-referential.
The possible links of the work with the natural empirical world are
interesting in that they point out this fact; what matters is the mental process works of art initiate in us, the search for meaning, the
“test of consistency.”
— Lívia Páldi

Bálint Havas (1971, Budapest). Ándrás Gálik (1970, Budapest)

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: American Univeryity, Cairo; 2002: Tent-CBK, Rotterdam; Hajos street, Budapest.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: 50a Biennale di Venezia; 2002: September Horse, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Flag, Polish Institute, Budapest; Space, ICA Dunaújváros, Hungary; 2001: Side, Hajós street, Budapest; 2000: Qualities, Hajós street, Budapest; 2nd Berlin Biennial; Cream, MEO-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; 2000: Crosstalk, Mûcsarnok, Budapest; 1999: Element, Paulay Ede street, Budapest; Norm, Hegedûs Gyula street, Budapest.