New Riddle by Artúr Haránt
Haránt Artúr legújabb sorozatában a képek mitológiai háttere ugyanaz, ami az eredeti mítoszok alapja is volt: A természet szimbolikus leírása. Olyan anyagból vannak gyúrva, amelyekből az álmok is formálódnak. Ez holt anyaggá vált az idők során - ahogy Kerényi Károly mondta -, mint a zeneműnek a kottája, amely önmagában nem szólal meg zeneként, csak akkor, ha lejátsszák. Artúr ezt a holt anyagot próbálta lejátszani élő zeneként.
A3 méretű Riso nyomat, 3 színnel készült / Sunflower, Blue, Bright Red /
Minden nyomat a művész által aláírt és számozott darab.
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The mythological background of these pictures in the series is the same what was the point of the original mythologies: A symbolic description of nature. They are made of the same material that dreams are made of. This has become dead material over time - as Károly Kerényi said - like the sheet music, which doesn't sound as music in itself, only when it's played by musician. Artúr tried to play this dead material as living music.
Limited edition prints, every print is signed and numbered by the artist.
Made with Riso in 3 colors / Sunflower, Blue, Bright Red /
A3 size.
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About the print:
New Riddle
The ancient Greek Sphinx receding lived on the border between nature and cultivated land, between Natura and Cultura. That’s it standing on columns imitating wheat. In the well-known story of Oedipus, the Sphinx lived next to the city and asked a riddle to those who were going in and out of the city, and if they couldn’t answer, the sphinx strangled them.
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?” said the riddle. The answer to the riddle was “man”, which Oedipus deciphered, thus destroying the sphinx. Ironically, he gave the answer well, but he didn’t understand what to do with the answer: Even if someone knows that they are human, if they don’t know their past, then their future will also be lost in the fog.
Humanity has never known nature at such a sophisticated level as it is now. Yet it’s like nature a complete stranger to them. The boundary between Cultura and Natura has never been so sharp and the new Sphinx is already towering over us and ready to strangle us if we cannot solve its new challenges.
