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Modulated TV II. (Odyssey)

Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
Courtesy: acb Galeria
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    • Modulated TV II. (Odyssey)
    • Modulált televízió II. (Odüsszeia)
  • 1972
  • 90 b&w photographs
  • 13 × 18 cm
Alongside several examples where television served as the vehicle of publicity and was deconstructed by actions in which he appeared naked, Károly Hopp-Halász realized his photographic work “Modulated Television. Odyssey” in 1972. Similarly to his “Modulated Television I. Byzantium” (1972), this series of photographs is based on an emblematic film shown by Hungarian television that same year. These works analyze the possibilities of a geometric form and its interaction with randomly selected figurative images. The series can be described as a photo action where the artist drew one or two rectangles on sheets of cellophane, stuck them to a TV screen, and took a picture of the random compositions that resulted. The still, geometric figures formed by his axonometric drawings collide with temporality, chance, and the film’s representational, historical content lending the images shown onscreen their own spatiality. E.Kü.