Dénes Farkas
Denes Farkas could be called – in the best possible sense – a nomenclatural artist. By participating in the Venice biennale, his work gained a lot of attention both in Estonia and elsewhere. Farkas’ strictly conceptual work is completely inaccessible, yet the form he uses is so appealing it exists as a thing in itself, making every visitor stop, even if they make the slightest effort to delve into it. The most notable stage in Farkas’ work is the period he worked on the fictive meta-spaces created using architectonic maquettes – as described by Eha Komissarov. An increasingly significant textual layer has been added to the space, which saw its culmination in the Venice biennale in the display of 10,000 books.
While Farkas’ work was previously concerned with a certain meta-space, it could be assumed that as the significance of text increased the artist, in order to even out its influence (?), has become much more specific and personal in his most recent projects, including this one. Instead of pure minimalist aesthetics, the photographs display the artist’s personal space.
DÉNES FARKAS. Ars Poetica. 2014. a’ A/4 – 203 p. Offset print. Edition: 1/3+1AP
DÉNES FARKAS. Ars Poetica. 2014. a’ A/4 – 203 p. Offset print. Edition: 1/3+1AP
DÉNES FARKAS. Ars Poetica. 2014. a’ A/4 – 203 p. Offset print. Edition: 1/3+1AP