Richard Csik

About my artworks

Within any great metropolis the natural ebb and flow of city life produces a multitude of differing facades. As an individual we flit between our solitary state and that of the collective. We are constantly navigating the geometry of the city, moving from facade to facade often without even noticing the different worlds we are traversing. Whilst we travel on the tube through the street to the office, we have journeyed through the shadows and silhouettes that make up the vast tapestry of our metropolis. These everyday images absorbed and contained within my memory become the inspiration for my work.
My works are frequently based on found photohraphs(and sometimes of my own), but are not painted in a photorealist style, instead using the photographs simply for reference.
If we stop in the street to view the faces around us, feel the movement we are a part of and the significance we feel within ourselves, we become part of an image, a moment in time. When trying to recall these images from my experience, i am left with outlines, patches and figures. I am seeing the city in its metamorphic and ambiguous state, with its own life and highly geometric nature.
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2002-2009 University of Pecs, Hungary, MA in Fine arts, specialising in painting
2000-2001 Pannon College, Hungary, Marketing management Diploma
1995-1999 III. Bela Art High school, Hungary