Experience Photos

The artist’s photographs inspired by Lake Balaton—so indispensable to the Hungarian common sense—are true curiosities. Music of joy. Naturally, the fine art, or rather the graphic artist’s vein “does not turn to water.” He has preserved his graphic artist’s attitude, as the hallmark of the graphic creative process is distinctly the fusion of planning and spontaneity. Using our era’s perplexing medium, documentation is paired with vision, and the l’art pour l’art registered moments are authenticated by the artist’s persona. Thus, the Balaton postcards, the Balaton vistas can create the catharses of nature and imagination. Essential is the punto di vista, the Gesichtspunkt, that is, the viewpoint, as in the Microfactura series, the disposition of the artistic ego, which leads the viewer from the concrete sight, if you will, toward imaginative/painterly contents. Photography is the enchantment of reproduction and the irresistible arouser of desire. Picture postcards were, one way or another, still products of the Gutenberg galaxy, and interestingly, the reference of the digital cloud world has not become anything different either, at least as far as the artist committed to the kunstvollen is concerned. Because photography, regardless of whatever technical trouvaille it is made with, seems to persistently be about one thing: remembering. It has also become certain that any kind of reproduction does not diminish the true work’s essence, its aura.

Hudra Klára, art historian