Untitled

Jaroslav Varga

Jaroslav Varga – Untitled
date:
measurements: (2 variant)
výška 350.0 cm, šírka 250.0 cm (1 variant - fixné rozmery)
work type: iné médiá
material: paper
technique: digital printing
institution: Slovenská národná galéria, SNG
inventory number: IM 303
tags: muž kniha
in collections:
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The empty library invites one to write their own trace in it. Something that is not normally allowed in a gallery or museum is welcome for Jaroslav Varga's piece. 

He brings only the first impulse and leaves further activity to the visitors. The empty library is meant to symbolise a form of suppression of the current information overload. After interacting with ordinary visitors, reading his work is also engaging more than once in time, because it is continuously added to and changed, it takes on a life of its own. 

The randomness and originality of the creations of ordinary visitors create a space in which even a person who has never read a single book in his life does not feel overwhelmed by intellectual heaviness.  

lab.SNG ● Text from the atlas.sng.sk app for the exhibition Prečo (ume)nie?