Exploring "Naming You": Little Warsaw's Exhibition on History and Artistic Interpretation at Secession
Delve into this unique showcase of mosaics, sculptures, and video art recontextualizing historical artifacts and narratives.
Little Warsaw's "Naming You" exhibition at Secession presents a profound exploration of history and its diverse interpretations. Through a novel authored by artists András Gálik and Bálint Havas, the show features powerful works like floor mosaics, text sculptures, and significant found objects. Discover how collective consciousness and established visual traditions are re-examined.
About Little Warsaw (András Gálik, Bálint Havas) Naming You at Secession in Vienna
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Exhibition summary
This exhibition by Little Warsaw (András Gálik and Bálint Havas) delves into history and its interpretation, focusing on the recontextualization of monuments and artistic artifacts. The show features a novel written by the artists that serves as a conceptual backdrop to the displayed works, including mosaics, text sculptures, and found objects.
Curatorial context
The exhibition 'Naming You' by the Budapest-based artists András Gálik and Bálint Havas, working as Little Warsaw since 1999, examines history, collective consciousness, and established visual traditions. Their practice often involves recontextualizing monuments and artistic artifacts to bring forgotten or overlooked elements back into collective awareness. For this exhibition at Secession, Little Warsaw have authored a novel of the same name, which underpins the conceptual framework for the displayed pieces. The exhibition includes 'Relief,' a floor mosaic created from color fields based on Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten's color charts, which emerged from a year-long group project discussing artistic production, collecting, and the art market. This mosaic is intended as a temporary manifestation. Other featured works include 'Kis Varsó,' stylized iron lettering in Hungarian for 'Little Warsaw,' serving as a logo, and a sculpture of a reading worker by András Beck, originally intended as a monument. The show also presents a photo series 'Unperson' depicting Mátyás Rákosi, and a video 'Sculptor Machine' that interweaves historical footage related to art education and agricultural technology. Additionally, three sculptural works explore the history of religious practice in Hungary, with geometric objects like 'Belfry' and 'Jaali' replicating architectural details from a Budapest church. The exhibition concludes with a work titled 'Eyes,' a quote from a Hungarian romantic poem that reflects on admiration and love, prompting a consideration of the audience's relationship to the artwork.
Admission and ticket notes
The page mentions 'tickets' with a link to an external booking platform and indicates opening hours, suggesting admission is managed through specific ticketing, though exact details are not provided on this page. Visitors are directed to a dedicated 'Information & Tickets' section of the website for more details. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM, with a note that the museum is open today ('heute geöffnet').
Little Warsaw (András Gálik, Bálint Havas) Naming You key exhibition facts
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Venue
Secession
Current status
Open now
Exhibition schedule
From Apr 11, 2014
Artist line / attribution
Little Warsaw (András Gálik, born 1970, and Bálint Havas, born 1971) are Hungarian artists based in Budapest. Their collaborative projects, including films, performances, and installations, engage with history and its interpretation.
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