ZSOLT DUDAS
OPEN HOUSE GROUP SHOW
Lane House, Biddestone, Wiltshire
October 2019 - January 2020
I work with feelings and thoughts transforming them, trying to capture what we are and our life in the state of betweenness. Between something and nothing. Using both of my hands to draw or paint I am between. Standing between nothing and something. Drawing and painting are tools in my hands. Tools to measure, perceive and ultimately understand what we are.
The context and method of my work is a ‘palimpsest’: a complex, multi-layered collection of different elements, definitions, memories - influenced by the experience of identity, history, culture, language and analogy. It is a carefully planned act of destruction of an already existing ‘materia’, followed by the gesture of creating the record or library of elements. It is controlled but on the other hand there is the element of chance as the destructed layer might make an appearance against the violent will of destruction.
Palimpsest is an existentialist struggle desiring to deny temporality. Its nature originates in violence.
There is beauty in violence. A thought, an idea may bear the mark of beauty, but the interpretation of them might deliver destruction.
Zsolt Dudas draws from personal experience - something he has seen, read or touched to create an in-between space, overlap or cross-over; a profound experimental investigation to understand the nature of being and in the same time being in the body. His work is by turns dark, beautiful, melancholy, exquisite, tender and haunting - but always powerful.
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