FE 2015

Un progetto del Comune di Reggio nell'Emilia
 
Comune di Reggio Emilia – Città delle persone

  • Ákos Czigány, 36 blank pages from Erasmus Darwin: The Botanic Garden. A Poem in Two Parts. London: J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 3rd edition. 1795, 2010. courtesy Nopx, Torino
    Ákos Czigány, 36 blank pages from Erasmus Darwin: The Botanic Garden. A Poem in Two Parts. London: J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 3rd edition. 1795, 2010. courtesy Nopx, Torino
  • Ákos Czigány, 99 blank pages from The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1838–1843. Part 1 Fossil Mammalia by R. Owen. 1838–1840, 2009-10. courtesy Várfok Gallery, Budapest
    Ákos Czigány, 99 blank pages from The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Henry Colburn. 1838–1843. Part 1 Fossil Mammalia by R. Owen. 1838–1840, 2009-10. courtesy Várfok Gallery, Budapest
  • Ákos Czigány, 20 blank pages from Charles Darwin: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. Vols. 1-2. New York: Judd & Co. ist American ed. 1868, 2010. courtesy Nopx, Torino
    Ákos Czigány, 20 blank pages from Charles Darwin: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. Vols. 1-2. New York: Judd & Co. ist American ed. 1868, 2010. courtesy Nopx, Torino

Ákos Czigány, In viaggio con Darwin

 

curated by Gigliola Foschi

 

(Travelling with Charles Darwin)

After circumnavigating the globe aboard HMS Beagle and conducting his extensive field research during his voyage, the celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species (1859), a revolutionary text that was the first to set out the theory of evolution by natural selection.

With his Darwin online series (2009-2010), the Hungarian photographer Ákos Czigány pays tribute to this great scientist and his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, the author of the set of poems entitled The Botanic Garden (1789-91) and ahead of his time in his support for evolutionist ideas.

Czigány creates a grid composition, reproducing only the blank pages from the early editions of Darwin’s books, sourced from the Internet. Neatly arranged one beside the other, when seen from a distance these pages look like abstract artworks, or evanescent mosaics made up of almost identical sheets, while from close up they reveal the marks of time and the traces of drawings and texts filtering through from the reverse side of each page.

BIO

Ákos Czigány was born in Budapest in 1972 and graduated in Latin from the Faculty of the Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Lucien Hervé and Rodolf Hervé Prize in Paris. In 2011 he won an artist’s residency in Frankfurt am Mein and a prize from the Leica Gallery in Prague. He has held many solo exhibitions in Hungary as well as France, Italy and Germany. His works are part of several public and private collections, including those of the Hungarian Photography Museum in Keckemét.

His work is diplayed regularly at the Varfok Gallery in Budapest, the Nopx in Turin and the Galerie Braubachfive in Frankfurt am Main.

EVENTS

Saturday, May 16_11 am_Galleria Parmeggiani
Exhibition A journey with Darwin guided tour with the artist Akos Czigány and the curator Gigliola Foschi

exhibition venue

Galleria Parmeggiani
corso Cairoli, 2
42121 Reggio Emilia

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Opening hours

• during the inaugural days
05/15 › 7pm - midnight
05/16 › 10am - midnight
05/17 › 10am - midnight
• from May 22 to July 26 the exhibits are open from friday to sunday
Friday › 4pm-11pm
Saturday › 10am-11pm
Sunday and holidays › 10am-8pm

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