A LYRICAL AND IMAGINATIVE JOURNEY IN NINE CHAPTERS
with expanded material from the photo album entitled Unintended Light
SLIDESHOW
How moving that the Sun blesses us with infinite energy and light; make of it what we will. Free of intention, limitation, or precondition, this gift is granted to us, and anyone may use it for any purpose. For the most part, we neglect to give this entire phenomenon its proper due. Yet, for a photographer, light, the protagonist of this series, is of vital importance. At the same time, it brings shadow into existence, often emphasizing the absence of light – an inescapable duality of earthly existence, which also serves as the source of all trouble. I have woven this slideshow out of scenes of our lives – vacillating between the intentional and unintentional, seemingly insignificant and yet capable of great significance. It is my conviction that recognitions such as these can shed light upon the ungraspable essence, or precisely the potentials of our lives, providing snapshots of our coming fate.
For the evening’s musical accompaniment, I have chosen none other than portions of Gustav Mahler’s sparkling and stirring symphonic works, which often exude boundless calm. (59 minutes)
PRESENTATION
I speak at length about my passionate opinions tied to music and how the music that accompanies each slideshow is assembled. “There is nothing extraneous in the life of a great man. I would happily observe how Mahler puts on his necktie,” Arnold Schönberg once said about the composer. Somehow I share this opinion of Mahler, whose music I have continuously admired since adolescence. Yet, why would I choose precisely him for this series? With the passage of 25 years, I finally put together this work with roots reaching back to the 80s, a summer luncheon, and a radio quiz program. I became a victim of the well-know “butterfly effect”! I explain everything that happened to me and everything I did for this to come to pass. Besides the music, the poetry of the pictures is on the agenda because from that point on in, nothing will be (merely) what it is. (Introduction duration: 25-30 minutes)
TESTIMONIALS
“The projections made such an impression on me, I spent at least a day immersed in them.”| Kriszta Lengyel, artist and yoga instructor
“Zoltan’s black-and-white artwork testifies to a knowledge of the Italian avant-garde, the metaphysical painters, and iconoclast Surrealists, or it bears a kinship to them.” | Csilla Markója, art historian
“Zoltan has made a photo album that the coffee table sags under! Frightfully weighty – in the intellectual sense – and requiring as much attention and sensitivity as the best book by Esterházy. He has made photography not only a lofty art, but an absolutely profound one.” | Tibor Miltényi, photo aesthetician, on the book entitled Unintended Light