Painting is still alive! This is my personal association with the punk rock manifesto. Where did it come from?
For me, punk rock was a rebellion against systemic reality, a free and uncompromising way of being which allowed an individual approach to the musical and the artistical. For a painter today, this is a very topical issue.
For me, being a painter today is a way of life that requires an uncompromising approach to the ideas that arise during the work. Artistic expression can still be free from themes created by the media. I try to take advantage of this possibility.
The “Atelier Harmoza – Artist’s Space” project fills the room which becomes an artist’s studio. New pictorial solutions, experiments and figurative realisations emerge, to which I like to return. Despite the approaching autumn, the studio is saturated with work. It has its own pace. I paint by evoking various empirical experiences.
In the exhibition entitled “Painting’s not dead”, I presented paintings with different themes from differents periods of my life. Each painting points to another, and all are a record of time, ideas an concept. The slogan “Painting’s not dead” has become the motto of my current artistic activity.
Every painting has its own meaning. A collection of these paintings is a kind of artistic diary, which does not describe specific adventures of everyday life, but something completely different.
So for me, painting is a record of many important things. Almost everything. The result is an uncompromising record of thoughts rather than an aestheticised composition designed to please someone. My painting is about sensitivity, desire, love, curiosity, the banality and absurdity of everyday life, emotions of all kinds, observations, reflections and feelings about the people I meet. My thoughts are communicated through the subject, the colour, the material and the general atmosphere of the painting.
My painting is the language I use to communicate with my surroundings, capturing fragments of life in a bizarre way, accompanied by an extraordinary focus. These are moments that, although extremely precious and pleasant, are by no means frivolous. It is, in fact, a record of time that has not been lost.
In my ‘diary’ he uses the language of art. Reading his intimate and ambiguous themes is a task for the viewer. The paintings merge into a series, flow seamlessly into the next, and are intertwined with performances and projects such as ‘The Art of Not Seeing’, ‘Test’, ‘Galeriuj’ and the current ‘Atelier Harmoza – Artist’s Space’.
It is a process that is a search for unquantifiable values, condemned to perpetual dilemmas and endless curiosity. Static, boring perfection is not the goal. It is more important to have fun with one’s own technique, colour, expression, mood, the discovery of form or the lack of it.
So much in general, because the most recent works, which I paint with my own new technique, contain other solutions. In a small space I try to present a fleshy balance between the material and the painted subject. This leads to very essential solutions. These solutions are a mystery to me and fascinate me with their freshness.
Each painting is a surprise and opens up new possibilities – the kind of possibilities that allow me to add another page of my painting experience to my artistic ‘diary’.