ARTIST PROFILE

Eniko Czigany

  • Hungary (b. 1958 in Győr)
  • Currently in Budakeszi, Hungary.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Monochromatic.
Strictly speaking, one pure, unmixed color on each canvas.
Nonetheless through a reduction in the use of color, the picture becomes more, not less- what was once obscured by color, becomes visible through different texture. The images unwrap themselves from the fine mesh of the brush strokes, appearing as a playful, geometric strips of charming hills or the waves on a windswept cornfield on a dark night. The first rays of the sun at dawn or the last at sunset without tones of colors  become visible on these paintings. 
I intent to make it even simpler through more sophisticated details.
// These pictures are only truly capable of being discovered in a space. From a distance, we see only single-colored canvases. Stepping closer, however, the picture reveal the spider's web fine woven lines of the brush strokes and, slowly, the paintings unfold. Every centimeter's movement by the observer before the painting results in new details flashing up and others fading and - by this interaction - the painting becomes complete.


BIOGRAPHY

I was born and live in Hungary. On my artworks I depict the aesthetics of the way man leaves his mark on the Earth; focusing on nature, the geometry drawn on the landscape by human activity and its interaction of light or indeed with lack of light... Besides my colour pencil drawings on black photographic board I present it in monochrome paintings (purely one, unmixed colour on each canvas), which are meditatively minimalistic but narrative at the same time, never detached from emotions.