Ferenc Ficzek (1947, Pécs, Hungary − 1987, Pécs) is a painter and graphic artist and founding member of the Pécs Studio who built on avantgarde currents to produce, in the worst of political environments, a most outstanding, coherent neo-avantgarde oeuvre. During his regrettably brief career, he dealt extensively with the study of light; projection-based works form a special subset of his oeuvre, and the present two pieces are among these. He examines changes in light primarily with the help of everyday objects, like the still life mounted on a suspended kitchen stool, where light sources are installed among the objects themselves. Handshake was created as part of the performance Shadow Shift, which was filmed with two cameras. Ficzek is separated from Sándor Pinczehelyi − another member of the Pécs Studio − by a screen, so that only Ficzek's shadow is visible. The screen makes communication between the two impossible.
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