Antal Lakner. Workstation

Antal Lakner is a member of the Hungarian artist generation emerging in the 1990’s many of whom, including him, have achieved international recognition. Working at the border between reality and fiction, he creates works of a subversive nature that, on the one hand, integrate visual arts into everyday reality and into our surrounding environment, on the other hand, question the traditional approach to art objects and the monotonous rituals of audience behaviour by transforming the institutional environment. One of the most versatile practitioners of post-conceptual art, Antal Lakner discards the notion of art as exclusively viable within a closed institutional environment. Rather than envisioning the creative process as the solitary work of an artist under inspiration and full of pathos, he approaches his work with the attitude of an engineer: adapting the precise planning process characteristic of industrial production or scientific research, as he focuses on the conceptual content conveyed, rather than on the techniques utilised. This volume is a fully comprehensive catalogue of the exhibition on display between September 2012 and January 2013.

Language: English