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ANDRÁS MENGYÁN

Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary
www.andrasmengyan.com

He has born in 1945 in Békéscsaba. In 1968 he took his reports and monographs. To acknowledge his professional

degree with master grade at the Hungarian Academy activity, in 2006 the designers prize “Dózsa Farkas András”
of Crafts and Design. He is participant and honoured awards him, in 2007 by Munkácsy-prize fine art awards and
of numerous national and international exhibitions. His also the Hungarian Széchenyi Academy of Literature and
works can be found in native and foreign state and private the Arts admits him as a member. He is very active in the
collections. His activity introduced by critiques, studies, domestic and in the international art scenes.

"In order to make my ideas and artworks easier to understand, Such observations motivated me to investigate three questions:
let’s take an imaginary walk through an imaginary town. On our a. How is it possible to grasp experience about a
walk, we experience innumerable things simultaneously. Traffic simultaneously perceived environment in its many layers,

streams by, people pass us, birds fly overhead, tantalizing smells integrating perceptions over time to reflect changes in the
waft from a bakery shop, the grinding of gears annoys us as we environment?
nibble a croissant. As we walk the streets, a great diversity of b. Is there is any way to record this type of experience visually?
stimuli bombards us, imparting an overall impression of the town. c. Is a three-dimensional structure appropriate to do this?

How do we arrive at an overall idea of something complex As we know, perception is a highly complex process. During
- like this town - that we never seen completely and in the our walk around town, all of our senses were active and
same moment? What kinds of mechanisms create for us a simultaneously registered the events around us. Since our
personal, subjective impression? And going a step further, environment was constantly changing and we ourselves

we can even imagine - fiction today, but possible to envision were in motion, we perceived large numbers of simultaneous
given current technology - that the entire town and all its stimuli again and again. We required thousands of such
contents and events are transparent, like an image generated sequences to form an overview of the town. We were
ARTIST by a CT or PET/CT scanner. The image we see might appear able to perceive our surroundings holistically because our

brains integrated our perceptions - both simultaneous and
chaotic and unpredictable; however, we can take it in and
make sense of it more or less. sequential - and filled in missing information.

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