There are few painting styles as consistent yet varied as that of András Ernszt. From the very beginning of his career in the late 1990s and early 2000s, his paintings have featured abstract organic forms and their gradual and continuous unfolding. He depicts natural phenomena, water, various leaves, the interplay of light, and moments of color diversity in his paintings using different techniques that create layered depths.
András Ernszt’s paintings can be placed within a painting tradition that has renowned and defining traditions and is (also) connected to Pécs and the art scene in Pécs. Going back in time: Ilona Keserü, Ferenc Martyn, József Rippl-Rónay (and thus the European painting traditions of the time).
The title of the exhibition, Condensed Silence, is expressive and apt, because it reflects in words the simultaneous abstraction and concreteness of the paintings, the intensity and restraint of the colors, the reduction of forms and the unfolding of their complexity, with which he constructs and constantly renews the visual world of his paintings.
Andrea Máthé, curator of the exhibition