Múzeumi napló (részletek)
Museum Walks (excerpts)

Summary/Abstract: László F. Földényi has been writing journal entries about his museum visits since 1992. His travels have taken him to numerous museums from Europe and the United States, leading to several hundred longer and shorter notes on various artworks. Földényi’s selection was not based on art historical criteria, nor did the author focus on the bestknown pieces, but stopped in front of the paintings based on personal, sometimes arbitrary and random choices. He initiated dialogues with these artworks, resulting in a volume of art hermeneutics. When we look at a painting, there are two mysteries engaged in a dialogue: the painting, which, as an object hung on the wall, is as strange and unapproachable as a distant planet, and the secret self of the viewer, the mysterious and ineffable net of his instinctual structure, crystallized in a specific manner for those few minutes. Born from these journal entries, Földényi’s next book will document the meeting between these two sides. The intention of the author has been all along to preserve the vitality of the paintings and to be able to look at even the oldest pieces of art as still-living contemporaries. Similarly to the way in which philosophy was originally rooted in wonder, before ossifying as a professional discipline, paintings and sculptures also used to arouse wonder and have only later become objects of art history and aesthetics.

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