Várady Róbert

Dear Madam, Dear Sir!

With great pleasure we invite you to the Godot Gallery on 2002 February 27 at 20 o’clock for the opening of the exhibition by painter Robert Várady. The opening will be conducted by philosopher József Kollár.

In the gallery, alongside the artist's latest creations, we can see a selection of works painted in the 90s, including material from the independent exhibition held at the Ernst Museum in the 1999s.

Robert Várady is fascinated by three things: existence, painting and the thinking about both. From the end of the 70s, to the start of the 80s, he has tried a range of painterly routes, moving from monochrome to hyperrealism. His work, as a result of three to four successive epochs, has arrived at the crisp style of the 90s. In his paintings the most striking features are the many‑layered, well‑worked, yet homogeneous surfaces he creates. These surfaces take different guises; they may portray a field of arable land from above, a ruined wall, the interior of a flame‑tongue, or a shattered canvas, depending on the viewer’s imagination. For this base layer Várady applies philosophical symbols such as a circle, labyrinth, mandala, square or spiral, while his newer works contain more concrete, objectified motifs such as a table or a house. The added symbols disturb the serenity of the base layer and create piercing depth, turning the picture into a multi‑dimensional composition. Whether these are the fixed points around which the visual cosmos swirls, or whether the symbols hover before a stable reality, is difficult to determine.

The exhibition can be seen on weekdays until March 29 between 10 and 18.