Várnai, Gyula: 1, 2, 3, (1996)

Self-taught visual artist Várnai Gyula (1956, Kazincbarcika) studied mathematics, physics and music, and first exhibited his art in 1989. His work is “intellectual and sensible object poetry” (Gábor Andrási), often related to literature or philosophy. He usually makes installations, often utilizing various objects of use, as well as sounds and lights. Doors or windows often serve as the raw material, as eternal symbols of the passage into another world, another dimension. The work that analyzes this trinity (for instance in the Christian sense) is related to an installation he made in 1995, from foamed plastic and ice. He presented 1, 2, 3 in 1996, at the Goethe Institute; the number 3 was to be made from bread dough, but was never executed. In its present form, the figure 3 is present in the work in an immaterial form.