Exhibition of József Fülöp

Almost every year, József Fülöp, a visual artist from Miercurea Ciuc, comes up with new series, new exhibitions, and if we were to place these series next to each other, they would function as a series, the portraits and characters would be organized into stories, drawing the individual path of the artist. The eternal problem of József Fülöp's works is the presentation of the unresolvable tensions between inside and outside, between the self and the other, and at the same time the constant search for possibilities of connection - depending on this, the image becomes nuanced, the person evolves, the grimace is distorted.

In the past, we have seen paintings by József Fülöp with strong colours and loose constructions, with figures resembling strange, robotic creatures, and we have seen his no less bizarre paintings based on the play of grey shades, often reinforced or counterpointed by inscriptions, or we have seen self-reflections, "situation reports" of painfully grotesque figures operating as graphic backgrounds on the text surfaces of various catalogues and newspapers. Greyed-out backgrounds, where texts, words, fragments of words are replaced by neutral graphite backgrounds, but the figures seem to be familiar. His gestures are contemporary reflections, opening up archaic perspectives.

He draws inspiration from his surroundings, from everyday life, even if it is bizarre and unbelievable, when looking at his figures.He draws almost as a reflex, as if these grotesque figures emerge unconsciously from him as natural expressions of a human condition. József Fülöp's work is simpler than before, more subtle and clearer. He constructs his ghost portraits from lines. The human cortex seems to peel off the picture, to peel away from its substrate, leaving only the traces of gestures, grimaces, gazes, like connective tissue, marking rhythm, dynamics, tensions in the homogeneous, off-white infinity of the backgrounds.