K53 – Integration between doubts/doubles and chance

Artpool Art Research Center / Museum of Fine Arts - alternative art presence

GALÁNTAI HOUSE | KAPOLCS, KOSSUTH U. 53. | open at weekends, by appointment

In Artpool’s fifth decade today lasts from the day after tomorrow to the day before yesterday.

2020➔ the integration of doubts/doubles and chance

The number of the Galántai house was changed from 55 to 53 in 2019, which has opened up a new interpretation of our existence. On the one hand, in numerology the number 53 is 5+3, i. e. 8. The number 8 is the number of passion, which helps people achieve the goals they set themselves. On the other hand, the number 8 can also be seen as a Möbius strip, which significantly increases the potentials of this number. This is why the exhibition event was given the title: The Mystery of the Möbius Strip.

53=5+3=8

We organised a Möbius exhibition to draw attention to the aesthetic values of pure thought and, not least, to protect it from the aggressive approach that Max Born called naive realism. The followers of this approach tend to stigmatise thinking as speculation and try to smother it in the name of simplicity. They reject unconventional movements of the mind, those that are removed from immediate experience – which the Möbius strip could be a model for – in the spirit of common sense. They regard pure thought as abstract to deprive others and themselves of the ability to think, which is the most human ability of all. (Miklós Erdély, 1975)