The 2009 winner of the Oskár Čepan Award, András Csefalvay, presents a large scale video installation for his solo show at the Médium Gallery. He uses the medium of moving image to create monumental portraits of seven men and women.
The Caravaggioesque films are fittingly projected onto large canvases with each gesture, closed eye, slight movement, or moment of stillness becoming a way into reading the work.
The qualities appreciated by the jury of the Oskár Čepan Award, including the daring and impassioned, yet well judged and balanced form of the young debutante’s work can still be seen here in his use of symbolism, spectacular presentation and clean camera work combined with the very human themes of love, politics, death and art running through the work.
