László László József Molnár’s 50 Years retrospective exhibition offers an insight into the creative process of the graphic artist and painter from his graduation from the Cluj Academy of Fine Arts to the present day, from traces of movement to an imaginary visual alphabet, to objects accumulating in a tension between banality and eccentricity, which ultimately reveal some kind of aesthetic quality in a baroque movement.
“In my work, I have tried to create a visual ‘lexicon-like’, looking for similarities in form and appearance, and I have found that there are striking similarities between a drapery and the folds of a hand, between the shape of a shell and a discarded asparagus, twine, the curves of a withered leaf, between a web of threads meeting at right angles, between a wire mesh or a lattice, and so on ad infinitum. We are interested in objects that have only aesthetic value, while we encounter a multitude of forms that look like indecipherable signs.
For me, engaging with art is about being present in the world, being in the self-aware, identifying and denying. It is an attempt to interpret, dismantle and reinterpret existence, to put together a fragmented and disintegrating world of appearances, in other words, the impossible…” (László József Molnár)