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Artist Statement for Arpad Forgo
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In my earlier works I was examining even and odd numbers, rhytms, angularity and roundness, regular and irregular shapes. Nature and natural phenomena has always inspired me the most, though – as I was grown up in the Middle East – meeting decorative and ornamentic Arts had an inevitable effect on my visual approach.
In my first, „Bales” series of paintings I was looking for abstract features in landscapes: I was testing the contrary of using organic surfaces with geometric shapes, between 1996 and 2003. In this period I found oil on canvas as the proper technique to create thick paint-welts that later became my felicitous device.
In the „Desire for the one” set (2004-2005) I dealt with numbers and cardinality, the relation between one and more, one and two, one and three . Keeping the works’ handicraft features in order to have subjective and personal reinterpretation of the numbers I strived for formal reduction.
In the „Dice” series (2005), after experimenting with different techniques I streched wooden and paper elements under canvas for enhancing plasticity, resulting in a relief-like surface. I’ve chosen dice as the subject of my expedition, because both the fact, that this object depicts numbers without using figures and that it’s a touchable object checked up with my conception. Multiplying the 6 numbers on the sides of the dice I created a 36 pieces set.
Recently I’m working on a group of paintings, called „Ramifications”. The unit, unity and dividing the unit into further units stand in the focus of my attention. I consider the process of decomposition as a fission: as a positive process, the initiation, the period after the beginning - according to my interpretation. Concepts, that can be conjugated with ramification, like opening up, radiation, growing, opulence, copulation and root, directions, space, etc., mean sources of inspiration for me.
I use oil paint not as a classic painting substance but as a flexibly variable material: creating paintwelts and laying them on canvas is the pragmatic part in the creative process, by which I can develop a personal set-up of the surface of the painting that compells for tactile communication between the viewer and the work on top of the visual perception.
Treating a painting as an object, emphasizing the paint’s corporeal manifestation I can perambulate the possible relations of the structure, shape, measures, planar and spatial proportions. Monotonous nature of this technique helps me beeing absorbed in the work, though I also strive for reaching a contemplative effect as well. Light glinting on gouges makes these works playful and sensual.
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