Visual Arts Portal
The architectural pseudo-drawing represents a special side of Vásárhelyi’s creation. From one project to another, an entire gallery of ancient, renaissance or baroque quotations has as its selective and at the same time constitutive reason the logical interweaving with modern architecture, in a wide, otherwise postmodern discourse.
The title of the article is inspired by the names of two events in the ceramics area, held at about the same time in Bucharest and Seattle. The artists, who are both Romanian, have in common, apart from the material in which they express themselves, the appetite for the cultural shock, covered conceptually by what they achieve, each with distinct means.