Mari Meszaros
Mari Meszaros has always been fascinated by the arrogant survivability of objects, which contain time, history and human life. The imperfection of reality moves her more than its portrayal. The fragment that carries the "whole" hidden within itself intrigues her more than the "whole" itself. In her work she turns “living” people into “objects”, into future documents of their current lives. But these objects are different from the archaeological finds in peat, ice and preservatives. From the plaster casts that preserve the personal physical dimensions, she makes sculptures that interpret eternal, universal human feelings.
In the art world of Meszaros we see her 'battle' with the “half reality” and the “half truth”, in which appearance and illusion do not lead to a lie but to a manifestation. An announcement of what can only be real if man is involved. Half bodies on the wall and hollow faces express the duality of what we see.
Mari Meszaros makes half of reality out of glass, a material that is fragile like man and strong like humanity. She forces the viewer to create reality himself by making a decision in these glass mirages.
As a second material she now often uses (diabas) stone which forms a whole with the glass, it belongs to it, the sculpture is complete, it is not just a head on a stone.
