| Images are therefore unreliable imitations. In
this interpretation Szabo´s achievement relies on the fact
that he draws attention to it not through his photographs but through
the reality manipulated with photography. If we consider that his
images draw from an objective reality structures of stills made
from documentaries, we can accept that his works indeed reflect
to the highest degree on the strategies of our media-driven culture.
They do not achieve it through sharp criticism but through the desire
to surpass it. This is also why there are so attractive. At the
same time they use the commonly understood photographic language
and rely on the scepticism so characteristic of our times, which
manifests itself, among others, in the relationship between the
images and the recognition of them.
— Attila Horányi
Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: Vintage, Budapest;
2000: Zenit, Budapest; Vintage, Budapest; 1999: Vintage, Budapest.
Selected group exhibitions: 2001: Fiction of a
Modell, Veletrznì Pálac, Prague; 2000: Art Narrative,
Knoll, Vienna; Áthallás, Mucsarnok, Budapest; Up to
You, Skuc, Ljubljana; 1999: Kunst der neunziger Jahre in Ungarn,
Academy of Fine Art, Berlin; 1998: Anthology, Ludwig Museum, Budapest;
Observatory, Centre of Contemporary Art/ Ujazdowski Castle, Warszaw.
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