In Győző Sárkány’s book we find nearly thirty small chapter titles, chapters, on which the chain of his work can be strung. Among these titles, there are more concrete ones and more abstract ones, around (under) which a theme and its pictorial documentation are linked with stronger or looser ties. Formula is one of the more abstract expressions. Perhaps the word first reminds us of mathematical, geometrical, chemical representations, and if we interpret it more symbolically, we can consider them as specific condensations, which indicate something in a summarized form, and which we can then perhaps unfold in a different language in our own practice.
The formulas reveal, describe and display relationships, which not everyone understands, and which require special skills, knowledge, senses and experience to interpret and resolve. A special common feature is that in this section, the artist publishes prints made using the screen-printing technique, which all refer to a specific area of his work. They stand out from the range of representations that are otherwise close to him, and his system of symbols is thus be able to approach, for example, phenomena of the stratosphere or the skyline that are difficult for the human eye to perceive. His atmospheric works make good use of the applied technique, using graphic and painterly means.
By means of artistic solutions, the artist explores the interrelationship between gesture and geometry, line and stain, horizontal, diagonal and vertical, space and plane, part and whole, structure and organism. Then, more than two decades after the birth of the work, he creates an almost expressive, directional vision using the title and mood of the Beatles’ legendary song of 1968 as inspiration. The formula became a work of art.
Balázs Feledy art writer
