About the book
German, English
- ISBN: 978-3-7165-1822-9
- Pages: 238
- Binding: Softcover
- Published: 10/2016
- Illustrations: Illustrated throughout
- Dimensions: 24 x 28 cm
An artist between continents and cultures
"Philosophy, so said George Lukács, is essentially homesickness: longing in all directions. Panyoczki’s homesickness embraces the whole world. It connects the once separated power blocs through his place of birth Budapest in the East with Zurich in the West, the place of refuge of his family following the 1956 uprising in Hungary. By now Panyoczki has lived for 25 years antipodally between Switzerland and New Zealand. He has erected his emigrant life into an artistic standpoint. On his trajectory he departs from the one homeland, tirelessly, in order to see the other one. Just as the artist remains underway, so his work marks absence by means of traces that stay present. He belongs to the generation of the 1980s that differentiates itself polemically from the mainstream of concept art and has not, like many others, simply turned back to painting. His conceptual interest has moved with the mediatic turn of the late 1990s to the question of the mediality of art. Art is perceived as a medium when its visibility is put to the test. Images arise in a state of vague reminiscence." Beat Wyss
In this monograph his works from the last 13 years are presented. The authors Wystan Curnow, Brett Graham, Herbert Lachmayer, Marianne Karabelnik, and Beat Wyss cast light on them.