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

1999

IWR80J HÊG / PíEfíSE 0011 T GO ff fotó / black and white photo, 98x98 cm Paksi Képtár, Paks / Paks Gallery "fidelity" next to the woman sitting in an arbour. Although Csontó does not necessarily start from this consideration, he nevertheless displays a "media-conscious" mutation of this imagery tradition. There is another possibility of interpretation, which does not approach Csontó'

s photos from still pictures, rather from moving pictures, and which partly explains the intentionally light, private banality of these pictures. The neutral yet very familiar images of the ship swimming out of the frame, the motorcycle taking a left turn or the moving truck alt record a single moment of motion and time, as if they were frames cut out of a film. Patience, which appears sitting on the horizon above the head of the motorcyclist, the ominous ribbon covering the left eye of the woman holding a flower, which says: ..False fidelity" and the tense face with pressed lips: "I do good", we do not search its origins. It might be a provision for life from Father, personal experience, a late explanation, to which we all nod and memorize its lessons. Katalin Aknai