Quotations. A world of wish-images. The ‘Desire’ series by Bakos,
(Lakner), and Weber

(c) J.A. Tillmann

‘Our mind’s incessant generation of images and art is an
anthropological faculty. Preceding us by six hundred thousand
years, Homo pictor, too, pursued this same picture-generating
genre, otherwise we would not have the occasion to discuss the
issue. A complex and prolonged interplay of mind and hand,
imagination and realisation shaped up man’s image. The
sophistication of the hand, the complexity of the functions of
the brain—including the works of the mind—expressed itself in
the development of man’s face.

The mind’s image and the accomplished image are very rarely
identical. But they both bear marks of the other: marks of the
once blurred, now objective, silhouettes of ideas and the
impulses, failures, and recognitions arising from the struggle with
materials. That duality still exists, albeit it is shrouded in a mist of
myriads of transfers. The intention of accomplishing one’s
mind’s images, wishes, cannot, even now, circumvent the facts of
the world—those obstacles of materials, circumstances, and the
since-emerged social network.

Accomplished ideas differ from the Desire images in that they
bear marks of the exhaustion, hesitation, and amendments of the
realisation process. The Desire images are “crystal-pure” in that
they are free from the rigours of encounters with the
innumerable aspects of reality.’

Translated by Nicholas Bodoczky

(J. A. Tillmann: ‘Vágyképvilág: Bakos–(Lakner)–Weber „Vágy”-
sorozata [A world of wish-images. The ‘Desire’ series by Bakos,
(Lakner), and Weber] in: Dokumentum 5 Exhibition Catalogue, 2000. p. 3.)

 

 

 

 

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