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Trabant

Trabant

Kő-Trabant
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A tiny Trabant made of stone instead of bronze, sitting flat without wheels on its brake drums, as if propped up on stands – a deliberate exception to Kolodko's usual material. It stands on the north side of Margit Bridge, on the Buda side, on a stone wall near the bridge. The miniature was created on 3 April 2022 in collaboration with stonemason Gábor Garami – the only work where a collaborator is credited by name alongside Kolodko. On catalogue pages it also appears under the title "Rusty Old Wind-Up Toy".

The Trabant was the symbol of mass mobility under socialism. Kolodko’s version is a humorous tribute to the Hungarian art of waiting: anyone who ordered a car during the Iron Curtain era often had to wait a decade for it. Fitted with a metal wind-up key — a toy car for a toy economy, remembered with affection.

AddressNorth side of Margit Bridge, Buda side, on a stone wall near the bridge.
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