The theme of Péter Herendi’s photographic and electro-graphic series can be described as rather esoteric and monocentric: a window corner with its rectangular geometry and its mathematically evolvable spatial versions.
The strong human background of the motif, which is extracted from the tangible, pragmatic world of everyday life and then manipulatively abstracted, is provided by the author’s use of the now rarely used print flat film as a visual medium.
By manually rotating and superimposing the basic image in steps, he creates a numerically progressive iconographic cycle that ultimately ends up in 256 sequences, the number of variations that make up a single work, completing the basic formula of ‘four on the fourth’.
Péter Herendi (1953) won the main prize at the Győr Graphic Biennale in 2003 with an anthropocentric series of electro-graphic works, but in professional circles it is not his figurative tendency that is primarily appreciated.
Bálint Szombathy