Géza Perneczky
Géza Perneczky is a Hungarian artist, art critic and art historian, associated with conceptual art and the Hungarian neo-avant-garde.
Dialectics, 1971.
295 x 385mm (framed); 210 x 295mm (unframed). Black and white photographic print on paper. Signed to recto. and hand-stamped to verso.
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Navigation Exercise, Cologne, 1972.
301 x 237mm. Glossy black and white photographic print on paper. Hand-signed by artist in pencil on recto.
This photograph is from a series which was created shortly after Perneczky’s emigration to Cologne, entitled ‘Navigation Exercises’. There were a number of ‘Navigation Exercise’ photographs made by Perneczky, and a selection were self-published in a booklet in the same year. A hand in frame removes the directions from the compass face, with only West remaining on its graphic surface.
The work is described by Perneczky in his book ‘The Art of Reflection’, “The basic idea was to have a compass that had exchangeable points. Then, on each page of the booklet, there was nothing else but a small boat (that pupils had crafted at a drawing lesson) with the compass placed next to it. Each page repeated the scene with the change that the number of points of the compass decreased one by one. Finally, the compass was completely empty, the letters representing the points were “drifting about in the water” and only the ship was moving forward.”.
£2750
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