“I don’t know how much longer I will work. Possibly, this church is the last. I made no compromises. But I honoured what I was given – the ground plan and the characteristics of the walls and pillars. Since the ground plan was symmetrical, this was not against my liking.
The inverse of two-thirds of the church would be repeated underground, just as all living cells have a coinciding, symmetrical but not identical “alter ego”, and just as a tree has a crown on top as well as below. In the same way, before going to His Father, before he was resurrected in a new body, the Son of God descended to hell. The drama of resurrection and deliverance, of the creation of the new heaven and the new earth can originate only in the love, union and rebirth of this world and what is not of this world.”
Manuscript of Imre Makovecz
Exhibition concept and implementation: Imre Makovecz Foundation
Associates: Lilla Berta, Zsuzsanna Gácsi, Enikő Harmath-Gyetvay, Gábor Kampis
Translation: Zoltán Farkas
Photos: Gábor Máté
Graphics: Tamás Fodor
Compilation of the exhibition material is in progress.