Browsing by Author "Somhegyi Zoltán"

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    From Densely Filled Vistas to Empty Piazzas. City Images Interpreting the Oscillating Dynamisms of Urban Reality
    (2021) Somhegyi Zoltán; Művészettörténet Tanszék; Művészettudományi és Szabadbölcsészeti Intézet; KRE – Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar
    Cities have been inspirational for the creators of visual art works long since, first as mere secondary, additional motifs to indicate the “urban” environment of the main scene, then as subject-matters in their own right. Those images could depict both imaginary and actual cities of the past and of the future, including mythological and Biblical locations, documenting distant lands and fantasizing on the appearance of utopian cities. In some of these aspects, the history of city representations shares significant similarities with the history of landscape depictions.
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    From Mistaking Fakeness to Mistake in Fakeness. Artificial Ruins Between Aesthetics and Deception
    (2021) Somhegyi Zoltán; Művészettudományi és Szabadbölcsészeti Intézet; Művészettörténet Tanszék; KRE – Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar
    Aesthetic attraction and artful execution of the object, careful design and seemingly blatant falsification by the creator, voluntarily accepted counterfeit imitation and celebration of a melancholy-filled illusion – these, and many other, often contradictory, particularities can describe one of the most complex aesthetic phenomena, that of fake ruins. Questions of perfection and mistake, accurate planning and permissive randomness, genuineness and authenticity – or the convincing justification of aesthetic experience despite the complete lack of them – profound references to the nature of decay, the transience of all human creation and nostalgia can all be found around this object of art. In this article I analyse the fakeness of fake ruins with regard to the multiple consequences that this type of fake can contribute to the better understanding of both their aesthetics and the concept of mistake.
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    Moving architecture. Aesthetics around the changing context and status of constructions
    (2022) Somhegyi Zoltán; Művészettudományi és Szabadbölcsészeti Intézet; Művészettörténet Tanszék; KRE – Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar
    One of the primary and most typical features of a piece of architecture is its stability, its fixed and anchored state. It is therefore surprising and, at the same time, aesthetically inspiring and intellectually exciting when buildings are moved. In the present study I examine the agency of transportation and the aesthetic consequences of such translocations in three art projects. First, I analyse the work of the Norwegian Marianne Heske, the Georgian Vajiko Chachkhiani, and the Finn Anssi Pulkkinen. I lay out the aesthetic implications of the transformative decontextualization caused by the relocation of the original structure. In the second part of the paper, I present the main aspects that connect these otherwise different projects and explain why the complex and costly transportation of these pieces of architecture is relevant and justified.
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    Space-making and aesthetics: Adaptive restoration, new functions and their experience in architecture
    (2022) Somhegyi Zoltán; Művészettudományi és Szabadbölcsészeti Intézet; Művészettörténet Tanszék; KRE – Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar
    In this study I investigate several questions related to adaptive restoration, i.e. when a functioning piece of architecture operates with a different purpose to its original one, as well as the role of aesthetics in re-purposing, and the importance of the special forms of experience such a conversion provides. The questions connected to these architectural projects are not only theoretically inspiring, leading to diverse and broad fields of research in architecture, art and aesthetics, but are also crucial on a practical level, and hence require caution and precise consideration, given the impact the final results of such projects may have, as well as in terms of the effect and efficiency of the new space. Creative and adaptive re-purpose, modification or complete change of function can have wonderful potential, as well as, obviously, presenting serious hazards to avoid. What is equally important, however, is that this will also contribute to a strengthening of awareness of architecture and its aesthetic qualities, hence further promoting the idea of safeguarding and care of edifices and of tangible heritage.