CSONGOR G. SZIGETI

ArtistCsongor G. SZIGETI: R-FLOW 1.2 (2022)

Csongor G. SZIGETI

https://szigeticsongor.blogspot.com/

Light is not just a privileged substance: it is an essential element. Without light there is no visual effect, no communication.

R-FLOW 1.2 (2022)

Site-specific light installation (6 pieces of LED display)

R-FLOW is a modular loop installation consisting of text display devices supported against a wall using LED lighting. The displays are positioned side by side so that only the backs of the displays are visible. In the installation illuminated signs and familiar props of urban spaces, which are designed to tempt people to consume more with their banal messages, compete with each other and appear as utilitarian objects taken out of their original context. By gesturing the texts running on a matrix of light bulletin boards towards the inside of the wall Szigeti also hides the message they carry and ultimately strips them down to a meaningless, abstract visual experience. Words and phrases are rendered illegible and transformed into a continuous pulsing stream of red light. The perceived or real narrative content is relegated to the background and transformed into a mystical, elusive phenomenon. Szigeti’s installation takes an absurd approach to language by identifying light as a medium appropriated for his work with a code that can convey critical meanings or questions that are kept secret. By deconstructing these concrete but anonymous messages, the artist reflects on a problem that is both liberating and thought-provoking. Ultimately, the work articulates an irony through which it points to the post-conceptualist legacy of an advertising industry appropriated for social activism (including the radical political interventions of Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and Hito Steyerl) by questioning it in a new context.

Csongor G. Szigeti’s (1980, Miercurea Ciuc) approach is classified by his conceptual and critical thinking, combined with an organic use of materials and a high level of craftsmanship. His environmental and context-oriented art is characterized by its interdisciplinarity features, however, his work, which ranges from photography and graphic design to sculpture, is technically and stylistically unclassifiable. Szigeti’s working method, which explores the iconography of urban existence and draws associations from the materials found in nature, is both humane and irrational.

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