Trends are bound to time. In most cases an object has a time: the best design objects can be recognised because they almost precisely show their own time, in which they were made. This forms the basis for retro-nostalgia, which is especially popular these days. However, besides this, objects have a set period of time: amortisation, or built-in life-span, is part of design with new eras calling for new designs and innovation; so designers ‘never sleep’ since they are surrounded by a constantly changing environment. There are no ‘cars for Eternity’, they only exist in time. According to Aristotle, space and time are infinitely divisible. Movement is the basis of the world’s phenomena: a transition from potential existence to actual existence. This is the essence of animation since it translates time, i.e. the movement of existence, as accurately as possible. It re-presents the natural movements of an entity in motion in a planned, i.e. ‘unnatural’ way and transforms it into an artificial, created reality. Presence in time makes things timeless, when the created reality sets into motion and brings a parallel time plane, a new created universe, into being.
András Szilágyi B.
curator of the exhibition