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"Pianino 1:1" by Mátyás Boros
In a previous life the young artist may have been a doctor, or maybe he merely envies the anatomist doctors’ profession. In his Piano 1:1 project he used  his  graphic tools to take apart a sensitive instrument, a piano, whose elements are arranged in a similarly delicate harmony, as our organs, bones, cells, joints build up our body.

“I love incongruous things, when something appears in an environment, where none expects it to be. When an image is complete, but within the composition there is a part that somehow does not seem to fit, and it is exactly this that makes it exciting. That’s how I met this musical instrument, in a higher education institution cellar used for mixing slurry, next to a huge drying oven, covered with containers and cement-sacks. It stood there with his unavoidable volume, its proportions, its history. It’s presence was completely disharmonious” says the artist Matyás Boros.

This encounter led Mátyás Boros to take upon himself the task of preparing the death-mask of the musical instrument, immortalizing all its wounds and injuries acquired during its unknown, mysterious history. He composed all that on paper, visible and tactile, thus making even more evident the absence of the what is undepictable.

„The topic became the object itself: to make a complete map of the piano, showing, „saving” the visible and the hidden parts on paper. Through graphical processes it is possible to ingrain and multiply gestures, but also to make real imprints of existing objects. The techniques chosen (frottage, direct print) show the object in its original size, with all the surface irregularities. I could also say that I prepared the death mask of the piano, immortalising all its wounds and history. Except that instead of cast I used paper, graphite and paint to make these „imprints of reality”. However, paper can convey only the body of the objects, the sound, or if we put is so, the secret remains undepictable.”

Mátyás Boros graduated from the Hungarian Fine Art Academy in 2005. The exhibition shows 71 pieces of graphics made by frottage technique.

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