ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Lili Ország), 2022

enamel panel, 70 x 50 cm, with adjacent hollow structural section

overall dimensions: 70x 78 cm

The estate of Lili ORSZÁG (1926-1978) was added to our collection in 1981 as a gift from art collector János VASILESCU (1921-2006). It also contains printed circuit boards originally manufactured for household appliances, which the artist had acquired from the Gelka repair service and then used in various ways—as a printing block and an enlarged printing plate—to create the images of the Labyrinth. The object under inventory number KEMKI ADK 21300/1981/L/34 served as the starting point for Albert’s work. The character of the strange hybrid shape of the blueprint-labyrinth-human—invoking the essence of Lili Ország’s art—is amplified by the bluish-toned colour scheme, as well as by a subsequent layer of enlarged, architectonic forms (also originating from the printed circuit board). The portrait-oriented enamel panel on the right is supplemented by the labyrinth motif—this time, as an openwork metal grid applied onto the edge of the panel—which plays such an inescapable role in Lili Ország’s art.