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Contact Sheet 170: Kontinuum
Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse. Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology. Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind. This catalogue includes an essay by Hannah Frieser.
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48 pages, Paperback
First published April 15, 2013
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September 19, 2016
IF THIS WERE AN OVERSIZED HARDCOVER IT WOULD BE FIVE STARS.
I am in actual physical pain. Because Adam Magyar's photographs of subway cars - captured as incredibly detailed stills from the side as they move though tunnels, so you can see the people inside - are intensely moving and marvelous. If I had a big wide open wall in my house, I would scrape my pennies together until I could buy one of these. And hang it there forever and ever. Just So Amazing.
(My words don't work well for this - which is why art is art, because there's shit you can't use words for. You have to art it.)
Physically, this book is roughly 10x10, softcover, perfect bound. Some of the pages do fold out to be longer. But. Still.
It's just a tease. It's a tease that says, "you have to have a home with a massive wall so you can buy the real-sized picture." And I've got blue balls.
I am in actual physical pain. Because Adam Magyar's photographs of subway cars - captured as incredibly detailed stills from the side as they move though tunnels, so you can see the people inside - are intensely moving and marvelous. If I had a big wide open wall in my house, I would scrape my pennies together until I could buy one of these. And hang it there forever and ever. Just So Amazing.
(My words don't work well for this - which is why art is art, because there's shit you can't use words for. You have to art it.)
Physically, this book is roughly 10x10, softcover, perfect bound. Some of the pages do fold out to be longer. But. Still.
It's just a tease. It's a tease that says, "you have to have a home with a massive wall so you can buy the real-sized picture." And I've got blue balls.
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