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 organization 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 characterization 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 emphasis 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 exteriorizing the artist’s sensitivity that involves the

onlooker with gifted skillfulness.

lgna Viorel
Professor of Philosophy