This exhibition is a meeting of those who seek the same values: community in art, harmony across differences and authenticity in human relationships. Each artist has a different perspective, but they all share the same goal – to show that there is always a way to meet, understand and share experiences along common values.
The Who walk the same path, arrive at the same space brings together the ideas and works of artists who, although representing different artistic visions, have come together along a common path, sharing similar values. The artists presented here – the French Romain le Liboux, also known by his pen name Ërell, Judit Horváth Lóczi, András Kiss Botond, Márta Kiss, Kata Koleszár, Eszter Poroszlai, Dániel Sallay, Juli Silye and Gábor Szenteleki – may at first glance seem too different, but their thinking has many parallels.
Ërell works with a particular motif in the world of street art, where the importance of self-branding is crucial; his attention-grabbing hexagonal variations are instantly recognisable, and his works are now being brought from the street wall into the exhibition space in pictorial form.
Kata Koleszár (1988) is also based on a particular set of motifs: his pastose paintings, imagining paradise on earth, show a seemingly idyllic world, approaching this sacred theme from a contemporary perspective.
Inspired by the “garden”, the forces of nature and timelessness Botond András Kiss (1992), in contrast to Kata Koleszár’s composed figurative paintings, Botond Kiss’s organic formal language is closer to abstraction.
Eszter Poroszlai (1974) Like Botond Kiss, he seeks to understand the laws of nature and the universe, his themes based on questioning human perception, from vision to the perception of time. In his cyanotypes in the exhibition, he gives texture to sacral and non-sacral spaces with embroidered ray lines projected onto them, which also represent the shapes of space and perspective.
In experimenting with embroidery Kiss Márta (1974) enters into a dialogue with Eszter Poroszlai: Kiss, moving away from figurative painting and slowly reducing his formal language, arrived at the circle, which forms a composition in pairs with embroidery through personal narrative.
Alongside Ërell, who presents paintings based on non-figurative, reduced forms Judit Horváth Lóczi (1981) also deals with geometric abstraction. Lóczi Horváth uses an abstract language to connect his internal and external observations, drawing on his own experiences and everyday life to create a colourful geometry that experiments with space and perception.
The self-therapeutic Dániel Sallay (1985), tangible hand sculptures emerged from the artist’s deepest meditative phases. In addition to his own intuitive thoughts, Sallay was also greatly influenced in his creative process by jazz, for example, through which he found a sculptural medium with greater freedom: the terracotta.
Manifestation of contemplation and the painting of a personal paradise Gábor Szenteleki (1978) can also be traced in his beach paintings. Szenteleki’s simplistic, stripped-down people, who do not see their identity signs, raise the dichotomy of individuality and sameness in society. His images, even without labels, are purely about the human: his timeless waterfront scenes show the liberation and simplicity of human existence.
In contrast to the timeless figures of Gábor Szenteleki, who shed the noise of the world Júlia Silye (1982) depicts contemporary man in paintings and sculptures. His works sometimes depict contemporary situations and social problems, human stories with humour and irony, whether it is the difficulties of the digital world or moments spent at Lake Balaton in the summer. But their themes also juxtapose the present with the past, reflecting on it and illustrating these suddenly transformed habits and mechanisms, sometimes in a critical way.
The exhibition is a meeting point of unique visions and shared values, where the diversity of artists and their complementary works mark a common path. It is here, through a shared respect for values, that a dialogue is created that will set the visitor on this journey.