Nagy, Imre: plur.sing. (2016)

aluminium, graphite paper, Styrofoam
Purchased with assistance from the National Cultural Fund,
2020

A group of his works is linked to poems by Austrian poets. The source of plur.sing. is a construction drawing for Konrad Bayer’s poem Time’s trumpet. Plur.sing. also refers to the singular and plural, which are linked to grammatical rules, but in reverse order, indicating both the linguistic aspect of the work and a different way of reading and interpreting it. The work is both a small sculpture and a model of a larger work, consisting of a Y-shaped tubular construction (a foundation) and a complementary X, which refers to the coordinate system. The X is the composite form of the funnel and the question mark in the construction plan of the poem Time’s trumpet, and is also the material embodiment of the continuous questioning of the sculpture, of the change of perspective, of the different connections between the various content elements and categories.