The peculiar existence of Venice is the theme interpreted in the assembled works of Balázs Kicsiny. Instead of the usual national or artistic self-representation, the artist coming from a sea-less Central European country, comments on the position symbolized by Venice, one which characterises European thinking; the linear approach to space - time and the ideology directed to expansion and progress. It was in Great Britain where Balazs Kicsiny during his stay there, was for the first time faced with the problem represented by a country without sea, and he encountered the cultural background of a western civilization surrounded by water. In consequence he experienced the relations between travelling, shipping, trade, colonization, migration, settling, foreignness, belief, and various layers of time.