Tamás Szigeti, Moment
A38 Exhibition Venue, July 1-19, 2020.
In Tamás Szigeti's latest paintings - just like in the paintings created in recent years - the proliferating textures of forests and floodplains provide the spatial coordinate system of the paintings. In it, the figures - humans and animals - move in a web-like forest aura filtered through foliage and permeated by flickering lights.
Naturalness and attitude; the captured moment and the elaborate compositional elements are simultaneously the characteristics of the paintings. Some of the movements caught at the show; images of the moment extended to infinity unfold before us.
The paintings on display draw a lot from the visuality of stencil images and photocopies, which are widely used in street art movements. Starting from reproduced black-and-white copies, the base layers, which manipulate image defects and fragmented shapes, are enriched with vibrantly colored ink layers during painting work. From the originally motionless image sources, a meticulous new quality is born, which suggests movement, change and transformation in its kind of molecular vibration. The resulting plastic formality suggests a new degree of freedom, new possibilities, by merging form and space.
The exhibition will be opened by Balázs Bús.
Music at the opening: János Bujdosó.
Our illustration features the painting titéed Flashlight (135x195 cm, acrylic and oil on canvas) by the artist.
