TAT  Contemporary Art Gallery

“Lyrical conceptuality” may be the best expression that one can choose when describing Veronika Tóth sculptress’ delicate works. The strong concepts coupled with expressive artistic choices face the viewer with bewildering philosophical questions of existence, for instance with the nature of time. Tóth, in her works, applies living, organic matter, such as flower petals and floral fragments, ever changing and altering tissues. These sculptures draw attention to questions connected to the relativity of our time-concept, to such subjective expressions as mortality or eternity.

The corpus of the sculpture consists of a painted walnut box which contains a pair of asymmetrical stairs in the inside. Between these two stairs, there are twenty-five pairs of glass plates functioning as “windows”. The front view of the sculpture shows a whole piece of pressed dandelion, while in-between the other windows – every single one of which can also be taken out and looked at individually – , there are only pieces of the puff-ball fallen apart. Since these little winged seeds are fixed thanks to the vacuum between the plates, it seems as if they were blowing in the wind.

This single piece of artwork makes time stop, it freezes motion and turns transitoriness into eternity. It reflects on time, mortality, nature and everyone of us, humans, at the same time.

Imre Bretus

(Translated by Anna Voelgyi)