The structuring and formal development of my latest pictures was inspired by something banal: the rounded-cornered glass framed with a rubber ring used on the doors and windows of metro line 3.
Inspiration is not even a good word, it is more like a sudden encounter with something that is familiar to the point of boredom and imperceptibility. The essence of my experience is that there are no static forms per se and therefore every sight is a journey.
For me, however, the choice of title for the exhibition has a more hidden meaning, which is linked to William Blake’s well-known lines from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Here, each of the images operates with subtle differences of colour and sensation, often on the edge of perceptibility. The title of the exhibition is meant to be both ironic and self-deprecating, a little in contrast to the already ubiquitous, loud and rattling, in every way intemperate and overflowing visual world.
Bertalan Varga