Csaba Fürjesi (1969) has been dealing with the fundamental questions of time and existence for more than a decade. He works with the re-experiencing of the sense of duration of subjective time and linear time, with the temporal displacement of the events of the present world. She takes her motifs out of their original context, whereby they lose their perceived stability and their reference points, and a relative, ambiguous, paradoxical situation emerges.
Fürjesi considers the presence of paradox to be very important, and as he himself says: "paradox is something that needs to be thought through several times, because what it refers to does not add up at the first moment. In many cases, its meaning does not even refer to the image or the work, but is located elsewhere, sometimes in a parallel or deeper reality. So in effect they are a kind of pictorial gaps with explanatory gaps. It is not the usual everyday attitude that is needed to understand them..."
The exhibition entitled The Limits of Forgetting consists of sovereign works in which the relationship between subjective time and forgetting is examined through visual elements, episodes or life situations, and station-like recollections. We identify with the memory effects presented in the exhibited works to the extent that we can find them in our own individual memories. It is not the physiological examination of forgetting that is important, but rather a subconscious personal reference, the experience of momentarily opening a memory box, so to speak. Fürjesi creates a distinctive visual and intellectual atmosphere: fragments of special life situations, moments with diverse meanings and different emotional effects.
Almost all of the narrative works can be interpreted in a deeper, broader context, whether ideological or intellectual. Beyond that, they sometimes project socially critical effects that parallel current global discourses. At the same time, the simultaneous presence of the works in the gallery spaces creates an atmosphere between fiction and reality. Fürjesi's works, which prompt self-analysis and self-examination, orient us to such an extent that we can compare the effects they produce in us with impressions from our own past that we can recall. In doing so, he brings out the best in it: he opens the door for new narratives to emerge between viewers and works, and invites us to accompany him on his journey through space and time.
Besides painting, photography and installations, Csaba Fürjesi is intensively engaged in graphic processes, the possibility of extending letterpress techniques and combinations of graphic techniques. He has been awarded several prizes for his "Multitypie" graphic process, including the Slavi Soucek Graphic and the Citè des Arts Paris Scholarship in 2020.
Opening
- 6:00 pm
- The Space
The exhibition will be opened by artist Csaba Fürjesi and gallery owner Linda Bérczi.
Artist talk
- 6:00 pm
- The Space
During the conversation, we will learn how Csaba arrived at the monotype process he developed and why it is special, and we will gain a deeper understanding of the background of the images on display at the exhibition.
THE SPACE x WILLANY LEÓ
- 6:00 pm
- The Space
Dancer András Engelmann and violinist Zoltán Lantos will perform for us at the exhibition. Prior to the performance, Csaba Fürjesi and Zoltán Grecsó will give a guided tour of the gallery's current exhibition, which is Csaba Fürjesi's solo exhibition entitled The Limits of Forgetting.
- The Limits of Forgetting – Csaba Fürjesi's exhibition opens at The Space gallery, Fidelio, January 7, 2025.
- Using flour sacks and a medical spatula to illustrate the fundamental questions of existence, Magyar Nemzet, January 15, 2025.
- Using flour sacks and a medical spatula to illustrate the fundamental questions of existence, Intermezzo, Klasszik Radio 92.1, January 21, 2025.
- Medieval codex painters worked with a technique like the genre-revolutionary Hungarian artist, Index, 2025.01.23.
- Gabriella Petrovics, The works of the Hungarian graphic artist set off a chain of associations, Magyar Nemzet, 2025. 01. 27.
- Radar – The Boundaries of Forgetting, Hír TV, 2025.01.28.
- Fábián Takáts, Do You Remember?, Országút, 2025.02.05.
Csillag Abafáy-Deák, Lajos Kölüs, Csaba Fürjesi: The Boundaries of Forgetting exhibition, Tiszatájonline, 2025. 02. 8.






















