The foundations of the art of the members of the Caffart Artists’ Association are as much the experiments and values of earlier periods of art history as they were of the Renaissance or Baroque periods. It is not surprising, therefore, to find in their work both contemporary versions of old ideas and new inspirations. We are thinking here of the artistic, aesthetic, philosophical and cultural historical references to be found in the paintings, the reworking of the models and methods of autonomous cultures and masters, sometimes the application of the results of the classical world, or the sophisticated and witty rewriting of the expressions of primitive, archaic communities.
In effect, artists evaluate their own historical and art-historical experiences from a critical-syncretic perspective within their own creative work: if they like it, they use it; if not, they reformulate or rework it. Caffart’s creators have two poles of thought: one is tolerance of traditionally accepted aesthetic values, the other is openness and sensitivity to the alien, to other ideas, which are ready for intellectual reception as the theoretical products of a unified, universal world.
Zita N. Kovács art historian
Exhibiting artists: Aknay János, Ferencz S. Apor, Horváth Roland, Knyihár Amarilla, László János, Őry Annamária, Pap Gitta, Pinczés József, Puha Ferenc, Rékasi Attila, Sütő Róbert, Szőke Erika, Török Ferenc