Reliefs: Drawing with Shadows
Reliefs: Drawing with Shadows

Summary/Abstract: György Jovánovics’s retrospective was one of the highlights of this year’s Venice Biennale, where many of the exhibits, to tell the truth, were something of a disappointment. It was only too obvious that the great creative trends of the ’80s had run their course, and nothing had emerged to take their place. In the French, British, Polish, Czech, and Slovak pavilions, for instance, there were works by “classics” such as Cézár, Kossoff, Opalka, Malich and Jankó vie, artists who, like Jovánovics, had ties to artistic tradition. The works of the Hungarian sculptor, however, stood out with their purposeful coherence, intellectual depth, and powerful forms.

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