{"id":2061,"date":"2017-04-23T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T17:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkon.art\/home\/?p=2061\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:36:03","slug":"adam-albert-melancholy-of-the-disconstructed-meaning-dream-of-a-barn-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkon.art\/home\/en\/adam-albert-melancholy-of-the-disconstructed-meaning-dream-of-a-barn-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1d\u00e1m Albert | Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning | Dream of a Barn Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h3 class=\"title-1\"><em>Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning<\/em><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;25&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h4>Art Gallery Paks<br \/>\n3 February \u2013 2 April 2017<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; top_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column_text]In his exhibition titled the <em>Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning,<\/em> <span class=\"small\">\u00c1d\u00e1m Albert<\/span> created an ensemble where he models the way in which objects with modified meaning and handicraft techniques become saturated with conceptual meaning. Installations constructed from handcrafted ready-made objects which have lost their function and new objects manufactured with the help of traditional techniques guide the viewers through the conceptual creative process: starting with the loss of function and meaning, through the building up of tarnish and value, to the adding of new meaning. Through the case studies of artworks, the transformation (construction, reconstruction and disconstruction) of meaning is displayed in the memory of these objects: the horse once used for royal representations becomes an anatomy lesson, the sensational revolutionary modernist technology becomes DIY raw material, the social-realist display cabinet becomes an item in a museum, and handcrafted objects become ornaments in middle-class homes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; top_margin=&#8221;0&#8243; bottom_margin=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_col-sm-offset-0 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; top_margin=&#8221;0&#8243; bottom_margin=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;20&#8243;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;1829&#8243; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; el_class=&#8221;full-img&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"kepalir-1l-full\">\u00c1d\u00e1m Albert: <em>The Narcissism of Power (Bones of Buchephalus),<\/em> 2017, horse skeleton 19th century, Collection of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest, 175 \u00d7 63 \u00d7 166 cm, onyx, 248 \u00d7 139 cm | photo: G\u00e1bor Arion Kud\u00e1sz<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;40&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column_text]Bertalan Sz\u00e9kely, who studied at the Academy in Munich, became an instructor and later the director of the Royal Academy of Drawing in Pest (today the Hungarian University of Fine Arts) at the end of the 1870s. As a professor of anatomy, he laid great emphasis on studying the movement of horses, he bought a complete horse skeleton for the academy. Nevertheless, he also studied the contemporary revolutionary photos of motion by Eadweard Muybridge and corresponded with \u00c9tienne-Jules Marey. The instructional horse skeleton, which still exists today, poses the question why, apart from certain zoetrope experiments, it was essential for the students of the academy to study horse anatomy. In this decade, impressionists in Paris painted one of the ultimate symbols of industrial capitalism, train stations; at the same time, important historicising accessories of 19th century royal representation and the key to receiving state commissions ensuring secure income were still equestrian statues (Habsburg dynasty). Since reigning a horse was the allegory of good government, it played an important role in imperial representation. Bertalan Sz\u00e9kely\u2019s horse skeleton, in \u00c1d\u00e1m Albert\u2019s artwork <em>The Narcissism of Power (Bones of Buchephalus),<\/em> stares into a three meter tall smoothly polished mirror-like onyx slab: the power symbol fit for art deco skyscrapers. 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shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column_text]Budapest\u2019s Kisterem Gallery is proud to present the latest works by \u00c1d\u00e1m Albert in an exhibition titled <em>Dream of a Barn Owl,<\/em> which runs in parallel with \u2013 and is closely related to \u2013 his one-man show in Paks Picture Gallery, Melancholy of the Disconstructed Meaning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Even a common barn owl (Tyto alba) can have a dream. Sweeping silently through the soft, warm darkness of a night-time motorway, it was suddenly blinded by a flood of light, cast by the fog lamps of an approaching truck. A flash, a loud thud, and it flails helplessly in mid-air. Some time later, now filled with fixing pins, it regains consciousness in a formaldehyde-filled container in a taxidermist\u2019s studio. It didn\u2019t even blink, only squinted with its jet black button eyes, peering from the middle of the uncannily white face-like patch on the front of its head. It holds its wings outstretched as though about to take off, to soar away into an alternative twentieth-century parallel history, in which events turned out somewhat differently, in which clever concrete (a cellular construction method), a Hungarian invention much acclaimed by Bauhaus architects, became a world-famous, modernist building material, even convincing Khrushchev to have it mass produced in his Soviet home-making factories, treating it as the Eastern Bloc\u2019s retort to the utterly different and infinitely attractive dream kitchens in the garden cities of America. The barn owl, the common barn owl (Tyto alba), dreams of success and celebrity, flexing its wings even as twilight slowly comes around, while in the studio, the shadows of the anatomical plaster casts and other items lined up on the shelves grow longer and longer, the shelves themselves utter charming creaks, and the final rays of the sun, as it sinks behind the neighbouring houses, twinkle off the edges of the brightly coloured stone and glass tiles. 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bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;60&#8243;][vc_column_text]The narrative of \u00c1d\u00e1m Albert\u2019s latest exhibition is related through the mouth of a stuffed and mounted barn owl that was found dead by the side of a road (<em>Nightwatch of Anxiety #1,<\/em> 2017), and it weaves together threads that are both historical and personal. B\u00e9la S\u00e1msondi Kiss, the architectural engineer who invented \u201cclever concrete\u201d (a durable construction material in which concrete is poured into a plasterboard negative and then allowed to set), died in 1972, three years before the birth of \u00c1d\u00e1m Albert, the nephew of Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00f6v\u00e9nyi, who happened to be one of S\u00e1msondi Kiss\u2019s most faithful pupils. The engineer\u2019s death came thirty years after his modernist invention was praised in the pages of the architectural magazine H\u00edd, in an article written by the eminent former Bauhaus student Farkas Moln\u00e1r. It was also just a few years after Gy\u00f6rgy Jov\u00e1novics, the emblematic sculptor of Hungary\u2019s neo-avant-garde generation, first discovered the lyrical beauty (and pop-art appeal) in a solidified bag of plaster. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the Hungarian state embarked on a massive programme of building affordable, modern housing, S\u00e1msondi Kiss\u2019s \u201cclever concrete\u201d would easily have had the upper hand over the prefabricated panels that were actually used. There were even a few experiments carried out using the Hungarian invention, which would have been the perfect material for fulfilling the social mission embodied by modernism. Instead, the technique was passed on by only a handful of masons, although it also helped to sow the seeds of progressive art and architecture (the architect P\u00e9ter Janesch presented the work of B\u00e9la S\u00e1msondi Kiss to his international colleagues at the Architecture Biennial in 2004). Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00f6v\u00e9nyi, S\u00e1msondi Kiss\u2019s student, worked for the industrial design company IPARTERV, whose exhibition hall \u201cgave birth to\u201d the Hungarian neo-avant-garde; later he worked for the Budapest Association of the Construction Materials Industry, whose many innovations included Mikl\u00f3s Erd\u00e9ly\u2019s invention of mural photo-mosaics. The studio apartment of Erd\u00e9ly and Jov\u00e1novics was designed by Istv\u00e1n Sz\u00f6v\u00e9nyi, and he thus unwittingly left his mark on the history of contemporary Hungarian art.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; offset=&#8221;vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;40&#8243;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;1868&#8243; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; el_class=&#8221;full-img&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"kepalir-1l-full\">Albert \u00c1d\u00e1m: <em>Boudoir,<\/em> 2017, cellular construction, gypsum, concrete, foam, 180 \u00d7 127 cm | photo: G\u00e1bor Arion Kud\u00e1sz<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; 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column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;1877&#8243; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; el_class=&#8221;full-img&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"kepalir-1l-full\">\u00c1d\u00e1m Albert: <em>Nightwatch of Anxiety #2,<\/em> 2017, ambrotype, 24 \u00d7 30 cm, kvartzit, 50 \u00d7 29 cm, iron, 80 \u00d7 97,5 \u00d7 13 cm | photo: G\u00e1bor Arion Kud\u00e1sz<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;30&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][divider line_type=&#8221;No Line&#8221; custom_height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u00c1d\u00e1m Albert delved into this wide-ranging cultural, historical and personal subject matter when he began to conduct his own experiments into what could be done with \u201cclever concrete\u201d, transplanting this modernist invention into the fertile grounds of an even broader technological-cum-handicraft tradition. Using the technique of \u201cclever concrete\u201d he recently produced an enormous installation in Paks Picture Gallery (<em>Library of Craftsmanships,<\/em> 2017), a miniaturised mock-up of which appears in the Kisterem Gallery, standing on one of the items of pseudo furniture constructed of metal frames supporting pairs of plasterboard negatives (<em>Home Sweet Home,<\/em> 2017). The interior-like ensemble is complemented by a carved marble, faux modernist, broken bookshelf (<em>Flat-Packed Landscape (Vanishing point),<\/em> 2016), as well as ambrotypes (collodion positives) of an anatomical muscular model (<em>Plaster Modulor,<\/em> 2016) and a copper laurel wreath (<em>Victory,<\/em> 2016). In the second room, \u00c1d\u00e1m Albert has constructed a \u201cfolding screen\u201d out of plaster panels, with part of its surface decorated with a pyramidal pattern (<em>Boudoir,<\/em> 2017). Some of the 60 \u00d7 60 cm \u201cclever concrete\u201d modules used to make the screen have instead been hung on the wall, transubstantiated into \u201ceasel works\u201d titled From the series of Non-Existing Mixed Technics (2016\u20132017). On the walls around the screen, iron structures fitted with colourful stone insets or abstract leaded glass windows bring the exhibition into thematic unity; each of these frames also features an ambrotype inset: one is of a plaster bust facing away from the viewer (<em>SKB,<\/em> 2017), another shows a study of a distorted wall (<em>Twisted wall,<\/em> 2017), while the third is a portrait of the stuffed and mounted barn owl (<em>Nightwatch of Anxiety #2,<\/em> 2017). The closing item, the actual stuffed owl preparing to take flight (<em>Nightwatch of Anxiety #1,<\/em> 2017), is the metaphorical narrator of the exhibition, observing the diverse set of works from a high vantage point, fully aware that it is through weaving together different techniques, inventions and means of expression, and through embedding them in history, that meaning comes to life, mutates and expires.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; 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