Borsos, Miklós Waiting to Godot

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In the rarely exhibited ink work “Waiting for Godot,” Miklós Borsos condenses his sculptural thinking into a reduced, almost ascetic visual language. Two vertically rising, darkly modulated forms stand next to—or in relation to—each other, simultaneously figure and sign. Their corporeality emerges solely from the interplay of light and shadow, from the density and dissolution of ink.

The reference to Samuel Beckett’s play opens an existential dimension: the motif of waiting is not narrated but experienced as a state—silent, tense, and outside of time. Within this apparent indeterminacy lies the inner calm that characterizes Borsos’s entire oeuvre.

In the context of the exhibition, it becomes clear how closely his graphic works are linked to his sculpture: the figures appear sculpturally conceived, developed from space, yet reduced to a minimum. The drawing thus becomes a poetic essence of his artistic vision—a quiet, concentrated meditation on presence, relation, and time.

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