ARTIST PROFILE
- Hungary (b. 1972 in Pécs)
- Currently in Paris, France.
- Ferenc Gróf is a graduate of the Hungarian University of the Arts, Budapest, and since 2012 he has taught at the ENSA in Bourges. He is a founding member of the Parisian co-operative Société Réaliste (2004-2014). Gróf lives and works in Paris.
REPRESENTATION
- acb Gallery
- Király utca 76.
- Budapest, Hungary
- 1068
- acbinfo@acbgaleria.hu
- tel. T: +36 1 413-7608, +36 1 413-7609
- http://acbgaleria.hu/
CONTACT & LINKS
-
1 / 1
Société Réaliste: The Fountainhead | 2010
Société Réaliste's debut full length motion picture, THE FOUNTAINHEAD proposes an experimental rereading of the eponymous 1949 Hollywood motion picture directed by King Vidor. Based on a novel by Russian-born, American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, the movie advocates libertarianism through the figure of an uncompromising, highly individualistic architect. Rand's firm belief in rational self interest, economical prosperity through free markets as well as her abjection of public welfare make her the founder of objectivism as well as a committed spokeswoman of modern capitalism. THE FOUNTAINHEAD conveys a formal experiment: Société Réaliste systematically erased all characters from the original movie's footage, thus transforming the film into 111 minutes of pure architectural setting in total silence. Deprived of its most prominent layer – the fictional account – THE FOUNTAINHEAD discloses, almost palimpsest-like, the film's underlying labyrinthian relations between capitalism, Promethean architecture and doctrinaire modernism.