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

2004

of personal life, rings, a toy baby, cigarettes, matches, the photograph of a young man, money, sequins, as well as symbols of life including seeds and worms, flower and dried leaf are interchanging with the randomness of free association, yet with a telling fixation. The symbols of Christ in this reading allude to the privately experienced Passion of Christ, just as the elements of civilization, for example, the gingerbread ABC on the shape of a tablet of law, marking the cultural references next to the private course of life. We have a feeling that we are in an attic, amongst drying clothes, and we see visions burning in the dark, stubbornly recurring depressing memories projected onto them, which we would like to hide, and try to push back into the depth of our subconscious, but they keep reappearing again and again. Or that stains become visible on the white textiles, which we are unable to remove from the clothes, even though we spend our lives trying to wash them. Or do we see nightmares and tangled everyday scenes creeping forward in the night, in which fears and prohibitions, dreams and desires, private and public life, reality and fiction merge? But what is this distant angelic voice, this ethereal music that we can only listen to if we stop the rattling of our brain, the unbearable rumbling of the soul? We can hear a little girl hum with abandon, which cracks open the shell of the somber spectacle. A nearly palpable, fleshand-btood existence amongst the ethereal, transcendent bodies, body mutations, a point of reference to physical reality. Music Is Beautiful - the title of the exhibition declares, and we sigh with relief, we have witnessed a difficult crisis in the life of Lajos Csontó, who has perhaps become stronger after this art therapy and can continue his life and visual diary with renewed strength. Edit András