Attila Csörgö
Three Solids, 1993

Artist
Attila Csörgö

Title
Three Solids

Year of creation
1993

Technology and dimensions
Slide projection, wooden container, sand, 3 b/w slides, 3 slide projectors

Year of acquisition
2018

Acquisition of the foundation

Gift from Dr. Christian Bauschke

Attila Csörgő (born 1965 in Budapest, lives and works in Warsaw) is one of the most important contemporary Hungarian artists. Csörgő represented Hungary at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and received the Nam Jun Paik Award in 2008. He took part in Documenta 13 and again in the Venice Biennale in 2017. In his work, Csörgő examines the borderline between art and science. He carries out experiments with machines and apparatus carefully constructed according to his own designs. He often spends months working on mathematical problems. The means he uses are deliberately simple, imperfect, almost archaic.

In his early installation "Three Solids" (1993) he is concerned with the transformation of geometric shapes. Sand falls from three silos through grids in the shape of a triangle, a square and a rhombus. The same shapes are projected onto the respective trickling column of sand. Where the projection hits the sand, the light creates three-dimensional bodies in the form of a tetrahedron, a cube and an octahedron. When the silos are empty, someone has to climb the ladder and refill the sand collected at the bottom. Very easy.