PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
Mátyás Fusz
No bottom, no top
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
2026, May 22 - July 10
“I’m not sure where a mountain begins. Is there a clear line, a stream, or a low point beyond which everything above counts as a mountain?
Then, up there, I have been to peaks that were very flat—almost like plateaus—and I have even turned back a few hundred meters before reaching the summit. Partly because I am afraid of heights, and partly because, when I am exhausted, I can easily come to terms with the idea that I will not finish this all the way through.
Maybe that is also, why there is about 10 square centimetres of panelling missing from the top of my house. Back then, I got tired and climbed down from the ladder, thinking I would finish it later, but I never went back up there. There is no need to panic—it is not leaking—but still.
The exhibition plays on this 99-percent-of-the-time character, creating hiding places and unavoidable priorities for it.”
Mátyás Fusz explores the subjective and objective boundaries of perception primarily through sculptures, objects, and installations. His works and series, which depict the possibilities—or indeed the impossibilities—of defining what is different and what is the same, are studies of the simplest possible cases.
He graduated as a painter from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pécs in 2009 and earned his Ph.D. from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2021. He has had solo exhibitions at the Budapest Gallery, the Kisterem Gallery, and the Liget Gallery, among others, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Kiscelli Museum, the Vasarely Museum, and the M21 Gallery in Pécs. In 2023, he won the Leopold Bloom Fine Arts Award.
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Cairo Contemporary, 1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Hungarian Academy of Arts
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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