Csontó Lajos - Verba Andrea szerk.: Csontó Lajos: Munkák (PMMI kiadványai - Kiállítási katalógusok 16. Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, Szentendre, 2005)

1999

image was not merely apparent. The continuous relationship with the text and its image was reflected here. As if Csontó had found an answer - although temporary - to the relevant problems he had been concerned with, in which it is not easy to discover the road that lead from the initial "stuttering" to this formally and technically elaborate figurative speech.In Csontos squareshaped photos the banal contradiction of and yet - and still not is tamed into contradiction or images presenting other linguistic configurations, for example, personification. What do we see? First of all, an invitation with the above mentioned title. What can this be? A clear voice in the ether - as the commercial says - or the rare currency of personal and honest sentences, a late confession to a parent, or perhaps a game, or alt of these at the same time, or neither of these? Art - regardless of trends - is working on finding an adequate form of expression for ideas, feelings, problems. For Csontó, image and text are both important - the way image and sentence can interpret each other according to the descriptive logic of language, the meaning of a sentence strip placed in front of an image of ambiguous origin, and the presumed narrator of these images. It is obvious that in Csontos case the spectacle is

, not organized randomly. The TÖR ELE fí / PRTIEHCE It fotó / black and white photo. 98x98 cm Paksi Képtár, Paks / Paks Gallery