Title: Origin unknown
Year: 2016
Material: concrete, reinforcing steel bars
Dimensions: L: 55 x W:55 x H: 150 cm
Origin Unknown
István Csákány, Budapest/Hungary — Visual Arts, Solitude fellow 2013–2015
Born in 1978 in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania, István Csákány lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, and works as an artist in the fields of sculpture and installation art. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, and his works have been shown at such exhibitions as the OFF-Biennale Budapest, Marres–House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2015); ARTIUM Basque Museum–Centre of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2014); LIAF 2013 Lofoten Art Festival in Lofoten, Norway (2013); dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany (2012); Ludwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest (2010); and the Prague Biennale (2007).
In 2010, Csákány was awarded the Hungarian AICA Award for the best piece of art, and in 2008 he won the FKSE Award as best young artist. His works are part of the collections of Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest; the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM) in Luxembourg. He has been awarded fellowships in institutions including Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and at ATELIERFRANKFURT, Frankfurt am Main/Germany (2010).
Schlossghost #1
In its new collective publication, Schlossghost #1, Akademie Schloss Solitude examines the ways in which politics meet artistic and aesthetic practices in contemporary societies. For this the Solitude-fellows who had residencies in 2014, 2015 and early 2016 were invited to reflect on following questions: »Would you say that your practice is political? If so, how would you describe its political dimension?« Schlossghost #1 takes over the role of the traditional yearbooks by the Akademie. Every second year since 1990 they were summarizing all the facets of the work done in Solitude and maintained as a final truth Stéphane Mallarmé’s affirmation that »the ultimate state of the world is a book«. This new publication has lost its materiality and exists only as a virtual yearbook, or one could say as the ghost of a book. WWW.SCHLOSS-GHOST.COM