Guided tour - Katalin Káldi: Seven Answers, Parthenon-Frieze Room

The number seven is in many ways and areas an exceptional, marginal number. It is not only the number of liberal arts from the late antique educational tradition, but also the number of musical keynotes. This number, considered auspicious and mystical, can symbolize the unity of body and soul in development, or even a period of time used in Hippocratic medicine to measure the course of diseases. While the number seven represents the borderline, the state before the crossing, the number ten represents completeness, the beginning of a new stage, closure and fulfilment.

The ten polyhedrons in the installation are made of the oldest industrially produced genuine synthetic plastic, Bakelite. Here, the textile bakelite is not a covering, but a structural material that shapes the objects.

The constellation of symmetrical bodies is a model of associative relationships between pictorial representations, spatial patterns and narratives. It is organized by the complex, encyclopaedic thinking that has been the basis of Katalin Káldi's in-depth, experimental work for decades.

But, as in the case of other working groups, the apparent order is an illusion that resists any quick conclusion.

Lívia Páldi

Further information:

https://kisterem.hu/artists/katalin-kaldi

https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/katalin-kaldi

Funding: NKA