In Search Of Paradise
an exhibition by József Bartha József
The event is part of 31th Saint George Day’s.
Bartha József’s installation projects work with symbolically charged objects in a poetic universe. This world is constructed through a dream-like logic: objects meet in strange visions, but these visions hit us in the stomach with their political allusions and the mature treatment of complex connotations. The installations In Search of Paradise and Lost Paradise are object manifestations of the collective imaginary of the present, fragmented and reassembled according to new, as yet unrecognised models…
Nostalgia is a recurring element, whether it appears in the handcrafted coloured glass vases or surprises us in the presence of cut pine trees. It seems that even space takes on the character of dreams: we are locked in and out at the same time. And among the multiple and complex dynamics of power hang the bones of ideals – of beings created with care, by the vibrations of the spirit and the workmanship of the mind. […] – Ungvári-Zrinyi Kata