Shatva 17 Print

1970 Born in Szentgotthard " Jozsef Gyecsek's painting expands and grows richer with slow, subtle, hardly observable changes and conquers for his paintings those scenes of the world perceptible to our senses which he has already stalked. His materials: sackcloth, packthread, glue, plywood, oil colour, chalk, graphite, paper, copper, brass and brass plate. He tears, cuts, binds, screws, threads the edge of the canvas, sticks, primes, he applies mass with hand or with a spatula. He paints at once or in more layers, uses glaze or scribbles. He makes use of luck and contingency. The fallible, patched, torn waste-canvases, which are stuck on the picture bring the sight closer to the spectator, they resemble familiar sensations of touching and bring back obscure memories. Sometimes painting does nothing more but emphasizes the spatial elements of the relief-composition made up of patches, sewings and threads. Jzsef Gycsek knows that a surface should not be burdened with more than it can take optimally. Some of his paintings are imbued with a kind of ease. The quantity, weight and proportion of shapes, colours and formations are calmly considered. It can be suspected that the seemingly simpliest, elegantly executed compositions gave him a hard time. Each painting is a peculiar colour-constellation, shaped in a determined, unquestionable way. "-Ilona Keserü