September 21–October 6, Alexandra Kadzevich, Imre Nagy: In Reverse

Often camouflaged,
often blinded.
You stroll through the choreography of opinions.
This architectonic pantomime
and the acoustics of polyphony,
like a discreet vortex
between tactics and tact.

Any kind of contemplation is
embedded in the muscular system.
Fleeting nightmares, fresh as stainless steel,
are intertwined with reflexes.

By no path as a path,
by no obstacle as an obstacle
you advance to the heart of things.

Text: Imre Nagy
Translate: Monika Lehmann

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A dialogue can move backward, ending with the same thing it began with, or the razor’s blade can retrace its path along the cut.
A reflection is always a preserved truth, but it will disappear in a second if the image ceases to shine its light.

An infinite light was reflected in one large vessel and, from the overwhelming force, shattered into small glass pieces.
They can no longer reflect everything as a whole, only as small symbols. A word is a large mirror, a letter a fragment of that mirror, color is its filling, and light is color, only yellow.

A yellow sunbeam reflected on your head, and then ran away, never to return. One can go back; this is what the color red knows how to do. It’s very persistent, can go to great lengths to reappear.

The hands of the clock can go backward, but it will be strange, maybe even frightening, and could take away the sense of reality. Then find the sunbeam again, a little yellow circle on the lapel of a jacket, in my reflection of the mirror-colored sky.

Text: Alexandra Kadzevich in collaboration with Harri Kraievets

IMRE NAGY
Born 1975 in Budapest
Lives and works in St. Andrä-Wördern and Vienna
2006-2012 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Textual Sculpture with Heimo Zobernig
2020 Art Scholarship Province of Lower Austria / 2017 Esterházy Art Award / 2016 KÖR-BKA, Project Sculptural Interventions / 2013 Startstipendium for Fine Arts, Federal Ministry of Education / Nominated for the Kardinal-Königs-Kunstpreis / 2017 Air, Krinzinger Projekte, Artist in Residence Hungary / 2019 Krinzinger Projekte, Artist in Residence Croatia
Selection – Exhibitions 2024 Neue Arbeiten & BAR, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco Vienna / Fluidum, Skulptur Projekt, Klosterneuburg / 2023 Nachhaltigkeit, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns – Selektion Schottenfeld / 2022 In Contro Solo, Kaltern South Tyrol / Ludwig Museum Budapest / 2021 CH Berlin / Ludwig Museum Budapest / Kunstverein Eisenstadt / 2020 New Jörg, Vienna / 2018 University of Applied Arts Vienna / Schloss Esterházy Eisenstadt / 2015 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / 2014 Riihimakii at Finish Glass Museum / 2010 Grazer Kunstverein
www.imrenagy.com

ALEXANDRA KADZEVICH
Alexandra Kadzevich (b. Odesa, 1992) lives and works in Berlin. In 2013, she graduated from The Grekov Odesa Art School, Painting Department. In 2023 completed a two-year residency at the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam. In 2021, she studied at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria. Also attended the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Kadzevich’s main media include painting and object making, which integrate the language of collage, found objects and texts. She repeatedly returns to certain assemblies of everyday materials that mark and shape a specific reality, which usually remains unseen. Recent solo exhibitions include; Paris International, solo presentation with Theta Gallery, (forthcoming, Paris, FR), A Souvenir Landscape and There Are Other People Living Here were held in Kyiv at The Naked Room Gallery and A Couple Of Extra Steps That Way, Artsvit Gallery, (Dnipro, UA). Recent group exhibitions include: Stolen Sun, Miguel Abreu Gallery, (New York, US), Inside Landscape – the natural environment observed by women artists, the Pier Arts Centre, (Stromness, SCT), Erosive Forces Shape (Inner) Landscapes, Galleria Doris Ghetta, (Ortisei, IT), IV Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art (Odesa, UA). In 2018, she founded Noch, an artist-run studio and exhibition space in Odesa. She was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre 2020 Award, and was a finalist in the 2021 MUHI Eight Competition Of Young Ukrainian Artists.
https://alexandrakadzevich.com