Coming back to an old tradition the Museum of Sziget houses in these days the paintings and graphics exhibition of Arp Kovacs. The exhibited works reflect Arp Kovacs’ periods of affirmation, successively expressed by the plasticity of chromatic rhythms that leads to stylistic unity. The derivation of the artistic space is reflected by the contrast of shapes, placed alternatively on the canvas. The shapes are treated organically whilst the geometry of shapes can be inseminated. The unfinished contours suggest an interior organisation of the artistic expression in which the essence is stressed by a crowd of shapes and by an attentive use of colour patches. An attentive watch helps to enter the universe of the painting, thus discovering the sense of material in movement; the dynamic struggle determines the shapes with a tenderness that cannot be put into words.

From the corner of a workroom the artist reveals an imaginary space in which the reflex of light and colour represented on the canvas dominates the creative step.

In case we try to give a general characterisation of the artist’s paintings we should mention the transformation of colour into lines and lines into colour. This method can be used giving a figurative character to existence.

Graphics bears the techniques of collage with an emphasise on closed spaces that look like labyrinths.

lt is very important that the artist does not give up the intention of colour in his graphics dealing with problems full of tension that we experience in the contemporary society.

The depth of thought and the so-called plastic message reveals in the artist’s work the warmth of human sentiments exteriorising the artist’s sensitivity that involves the onlooker with gifted skilfulness.

lgna Viorel
Professor of Philosophy