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Master and Disciple

László Gyémánt and Boglárka Nagy exhibition,

companied by Eszter Gordon’s photography

at 19h on 21 october 2013.

Opening remarks by Tamás Ungvári, Professor Emeritus

Performing artist: Eszter Bíró

György Szabó was born in 1947. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts as a student of József Somogyi. György Szabó’s sculptures deliver a singularly unique form of abstraction. Upon first look, his constructions lack figurativeness and bulk. These bronze pieces seem like haphazard, alien structures. Still, Szabó’s sculptures draw us into their own space where their structure ceases to be foreign, and each detail, each limb is imbued with deliberate philosophy. Willingly submerged in the intricately detailed, refined surfaces and improbable shapes, we cannot find a human figure and yet we do not feel amiss of humanity. Because of the material, the lost-wax sculptures of György Szabó are at once introverted, limited, mobile, and malleable. They delineate freedom, and achieve figurativeness in construction.

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Imre Barna Balázs

Imre Barna Balázs was born in 1976 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2001. His masters were Zsigmond Károlyi, Ferenc Kis-Tóth, and Gábor Nagy.
Imre Barna Balázs’s painting is exemplified by an organic network of gestures. Each canvas crafts its own milieu in which colors, shading, light, and layers are at once in perfect harmony and constant tension with one another. These worlds are open, constantly in motion, and multilayered – not only structurally, but also impact-wise. At first, the incredible intensity of Imre Barna Balázs’s images just about overwhelms the viewer. Only after this strong emotional experience does one realize that fortuity does not play much of a role in these works: each shade of color, the entire stunning complexity of the picture space, is designed and completed with painstaking attention to detail. Behind the vibrant, seemingly random cavalcade of color, one senses allusions to a higher realm. Imre Barna Balázs’s paintings point toward a sort of unpolluted wholeness, within reach only if we let the pictures guide us.

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Róbert Csáki

Róbert Csáki was born in 1964 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1990. His master was Gábor Dienes. Róbert Csáki’s paintings open up vistas that are impossible to imagine or describe. Unlikely figures and sometimes sorrowful colors lure us into a completely different world. With dazzling color and light, Csáki’s pictures take us unimaginably far from where we stand looking at the canvas. As we venture inside the frame, everything becomes more blurry and mysterious, as if we had discovered layer upon layer of this vision-filled world. Csáki’s precise painting style evokes the visual world of such masters as Watteau and Goya. It is not reality that the paintings reflect. Rather, it is the state in-between dreaming and waking, when every object, shape, and landscape is colored by our sensations – when nothing is clearly delineated, and everything is ephemeral. Csáki’s refined, virtuoso technique makes visible and real the fragments of dreams, memories, and visions we may never reach without his paintings.

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PAF

PAF was born in 1980, and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2004 as a student of Károly Klimó. The interaction of shapes, colors, and materials plays a particularly important role in PAF’s painting. He creates harmony between contrary factures, and along the substance-encounters they engender pictorial dimensions whose mutual tension and dialogue make up the picture itself. The artist is characterized by a daring, almost aggressive use of color, which further deepens the paintings that are already teeming with an abundance of substances. The central element in his most recent works is a figure that seems to struggle for existence within the force field of substances and colors. PAF’s paintings guide us into the inner world of the artist; each image shares a story or secret. This leads the viewers to their own struggles, sorrow, love, and happiness – i.e. themselves. Looking at PAF’s pictures, we are inevitably compelled to search our souls and engage in those struggles fought by the materials, colors, and shapes in front of us.

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Iván Paulikovics

Iván Paulikovics was born in 1953 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1977 as a student of József Somogyi. The works of sculptor Iván Paulikovics are figurative and realistic in perspective. His small sculptures are characterized by intricate detail. The figures have dynamism and character – they generate their own space. Their proportions and postures make them seem so real that it feels as if they could move out of their frozen stance inside the sculpture at any moment. The dynamism of the composition often results from the daring combination of materials. Each sculpture has a deep philosophical core that brings together the interior and exterior.

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