Szilárd Juhász

I was born in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania in 1989. After graduating university in Cluj Napoca, in 2013 I moved to Budapest, Hungary where my artistic journey truly started to evolve in the form of digital painting and fine arts.

These past years encompass mainly two intertwining artistic periods / ways of creating:
One is based on free association, tapping into the subconscious creating without intention, then inviting the conscious mind to decipher shapes, like in a Rorschach-test, then reinforcing these shapes for others to see the way I do. Often I start these works using charcoal which ensures an uninterrupted flow, a crucial element of my practice. To some extent this way I can explore the concept of taking out the mind from the equation allowing the subconsciousness to surface and manifest on the canvas for a more intuitive and sincere expression. At this point I am looking for a visual output that surprises me and seems like something of its own accord, where I was only an instrument in the creative process of summoning the non-existent.
This is followed by a number of oil paint layers executed in various techniques meant to reinforce the bare elements already laid on the canvas and also to enrich it with further narratives for...