ARTIST PROFILE

Kitti Gosztola

  • Hungary (b. 1986 in Székesfehérvár)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

REPRESENTATION

Well – a journey by Kitti Gosztola

  • 2019
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    Well | 2019

Learning about the somewhat depressing efforts in the Eastern Slovakian Medzilaborce and Mikova to capitalize on being the birthplace of Andy Warhol’s parents, was not an instant inspiration. But digging deeper into the story – how everything even remotely connected to Warhol decays and disappears –, it eventually grew on me. As someone who spent years drawing trees mutilated by overhead power cables and whose last show featured tree trunks, I felt obliged to make a pilgrimage there, where the last tree from the Warhols’ garden got recently cut out, having been mutilated be a power cable. The result is a backhanded homage to what remains: a 4-hour film on the well house and the trunk in the setting Sun, a fitting water clock, and a silk screen sprint, reconstructing the tree as a whole from fragmented archive sources.