Kopin Katalin: Idővonal. Szentendrei Képtár, 2013. június 13 - augusztus 31. - MűvészetMalom kiadványai 6. (Szentendre, 2014)
TULI The new exhibition of the SZeKKo series, which explores the contemporary art of Szentendre according to genres, focuses on both professional fine art photographers and other fine and applied artists who express their artistic message by means of altered photos in line with the latest art trends. The selected material is very heterogeneous, as its aim is not to illustrate a given trend or view, but to give the green light to the exploration of various artistic problems of different origin instead. Apart from art photography, the exhibition includes documentary and press photography, photography dealing with subjective existential issues, photos reflecting a critical narrative as well as conceptual and experimental photos. The invited artists have created new photo projects or submitted works which focus on the theme of time and fit in with the curator’s concept. The title of the exhibition refers to the virtual timeline on social media sites on which we share our life events and follow other people’s lives. Although the timeline organises our life in a linear and chronological order, events, stories, thoughts and emotions cannot always be organised into a chain of succeeding processes. Going beyond the original meaning of the word ’timeline’, the exhibition is an attempt to map the subjective perception of time. Photography as a kind of essence of time projects the layers of the past and the present on each other, creating a thick network of time. Continuity, transiency and change become perceptible in these inseparable timelines built on each other. Despite its seemingly static quality, a photo is not stiffening of a moment but the summary and sublimation of moving, changing, broadening and narrowing happenings and processes. Our exhibition is presenting works which make the passing of time and the transparency of timelines projected on each other visible and perceptible. The aim of the show is to grasp the notion of time by means of photography. Based on formal questions, stylistical characteristics and themes, the exhibited photos reviewing the contemporary photography of Szentendre have been organised into the following seven thematic units: Abstract time, Absolute time, Relative time, Subjective time, Empirical time, True time, Illusory time. KOPIN Katalin 13 művészettörténész, a kiállítás kurátora lart historian, curator of the exhibition
