{"uid":"IebXlv7gJEhyVQfo","type":"artist","tags":["instalation","sculpture"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Potato Sculptures","summary":"Potato scupltures\nseries of 8 palm sized sculpture (potatoes, salt, watercolour)\n\nPotatoes are tightly connected to agricultural works, escpecially in our home where the whole family took part of the process of growing them in our garden. The rotation of the earth, the digging of the holes and also the planting were the progresses we made together: my parents, my brother and my grandmother. This action, like all of the houseworks are eminently monotone. A repetitive working procedure, a sort of meditatio or a prayer.\nIn the life of the village\u2019s peasantry work and religion was always an organic element of life. In my grandmother\u2019s shelf a lot of religious relic; calendars with pictures of saints, Virgin Mary-figures and crucifixes can be found. Copying these relics into potatoes I try to preserve memories of a life in which work and religion composed an inseparable unity.\nThe conservation of the potato-scupltures implemented with salt. With this phenomenon the moisture - the \u2019water of life\u2019 - seeps away, while the potato itself shrinks. This process connected to the distortion of our memories. The water\u2019s disappearance from the plant is in parallel with the fading of our emotions when we look at one relic left behind by our ancestors.","space":"A room (or a space) of at least 4 x 3 m in which 8 pedestals (130 x 15 x 15 cm) can be arranged with the scupltures on the top of them, with some space left between the pedestals. Alternatively, If it is possible it would be nice to have a dark room, where I can put my installation with 8 light-sources lighting the sculptures from above.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":"https:\/\/www.gergobankuti.com\/sculptures","cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Gerg\u0151","surname":"B\u00e1nk\u00fati","email":"hippista@gmail.com","dni_type":"DNI","dni":"649165EE","address":"Kossuth Lajos \u00fat 8.","city":"Vizsl\u00e1s","nacionality":"Hungarian","country_id":"103","birthdate":"1991-07-12T22:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1991-07-12T22:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+36302400197","web":"https:\/\/www.gergobankuti.com\/"}