Attalai Gábor (Budapest, 1934-2011) was a leading representative of Hungarian conceptual art, performance, and graphic design. His works, with a large dose of irony, levelled a critique towards the ideological indoctrination of labor and the “madness of functioning” of former Soviet countries, by which, he maintained through his ludic photographs, “anyone who did not want to go crazy in the communist countries had to act like he was crazy“.
The following is a series of conceptual map works imagining the straightforward deplacement of whole countries such as Sweden or Japan (“Transfer of Sweden” and “Transfer of Japan”), and the creation of new oceans in the center of Africa or Latin America (“African Ocean” and “South-American Ocean”).
TRANSFER OF SWEDEN – planner: ATTALAI – date: 10.Dec.71
TRANSFER OF JAPAN – exact proportions – planner: ATTALAI – date: 12.Dec.971
AFRICAN OCEAN – plan – area: 25 000 000 km2 – planner: G. Attalai – date: 3.Sept. 1971
SOUTH-AMERICAN OCEAN – plan – area: 14 000 000 km2 – planner: G. Attalai – date: 3.Sept. 1971
Via: Artpool.hu
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