Balázs Telek Meta-morfozis Ungarisches Kulturinstitut, Stuttgart, Deutschland Opening: 13. July 2005. 7p.m. Open to the public: 13-25. July 2005.

Balázs Telek: Meta- morphoses

Viewing his pictures dealing with the essence of anamorphoses –meaning transformation, reformation - we might eventually find ourselves reeveluating the rules of space and perspective, or even understanding these notions.

His photographs – according to the XVII c. and XVIII c. traditions, but quite contrary to contemporary practice – break away from the plain photographic space and create his own picture- objects, in which pictures appear on the surface of different geometrical figures.

The recorded world, the shape of th person photographed, his face, his body, his gestures appear in elongations never seen before, details of bran new distortions, surprising plains. He shows personalities and the world in a way we never saw them before.

Looking at those regular distorsions, we can find the origo of the system of coordinates, in which we can discover the picture with the natural proportions, the picture with the right perspectives. The sole one, which is there, invisible, still present.

This might explain why people tend to start to dance in front of Balázs Telek’s pictures, desperately searching for that hiding point, from which the image can be tamed to present itself in its complete entirety.

Gabriella Csizek

Balázs Telek wurde 1974 in Balassagyarmat (Ungarn) geboren. Seine Fotokunst besteht aus 80% Fachkenntnis, 15% Versuch und es gibt noch ein winzig aber wichtiger Teil auch „und noch viel mehr”. Durch seine Visionen und seinen Fotoapparat reflektiert er gerade auf die Regel der Zeit und des Abstandes. Er ist aber auch ein talentierter Maler und Musiker. Sein Oeuvre ist einzigartig in der ungarischen Fotokunst.