The vasa vasorum (literally, “the vessels of the vessels” in Latin) is a network of tiny blood vessels that supply the walls of larger blood vessels (such as major arteries and veins, including the aorta and the vena cava) with oxygen and nutrients.
It is rare for a person to experience an event that forces them to walk the fine line between life and death. If this happens to an artist, they will certainly grapple with and process the experience through their art; this is how I, too, found myself in a situation where, for more than five years now, I have been discovering ever deeper connections between the fragile human biostructure, the philosophical questions of being and non-being, and—closely related to these—the golden ratio, the Fibonacci sequence, the logarithmic spiral derived from it, and their connection to the universe.
This exchange once took place between Diogenes of Sinope and someone: “You’re old now,” someone said to him, “so take it easy!” “Don’t say that!” he replied. “If I were running in a stadium, should I slow down as I approach the finish line? Isn’t that precisely when I should be running with all my might?”
We are preparing for István Stark’s third solo exhibition at the K.A.S. Gallery. In the summer of 2025, at the Gyermelyi Artists’ Colony, we selected a collection of newly created graphic works for an exhibition, giving preference to pieces in which the degree of abstraction is so high that only the arrangement of lines still recalls the original works depicting the heart and circulatory system.