Szirtes has used the gesture of paint splattering in different but several phases in his oeuvre, yet mainly on his paintings. During the last period, skin has gradually taken the place of canvas, i.e. the artist ‘records’ the mark of the action, the process of creation more and more on his own body (in contrast with his early ‘body-printed’ works).
That is the painting lands eventually on the human body, the image of which finds afterwards its final shape ’embeded in a classical situation’ – or as a moving (video) or as a static (acrylic on canvas) form.
Szirtes places his own face in the centre of the realization of action painting as the start of the process of the autoportrait’s birth through thick, pastose paint-coats.
Another part of the exhibition is constituted of an installation reflecting the unreversable process which follows a fracture: howsoever one tries to show something as an integrate one by patching, stitching it, the existence of the fracture cannot be eradicated, canceled – it is subsisting as a fact, one has to live with that.