One of the winners of our ArtWall competition, Szilárd Cseke’s painting “Amber Fountain” is one of the latest pieces in his series of abstract canvases. The work is based on the visualisation of absolute painterly surfaces derived from gesture painting and abstraction.
The system of coloured paints, resulting from the deliberately haphazard use of tools, applied almost randomly to the canvas, evokes our memory of a seemingly untouched nature, a wooded landscape. In seeing the image, we transform the painterly, informal structures into a personally experienced reality.
Szilárd Cseke, modifying his earlier creative practice, has recently incorporated artificial intelligence into the design phase of his paintings, but it is clear that ‘AI’ technology in art cannot be interpreted as modernity without the intertwining of the natural environment and human thinking.
The concept of Cseke’s Well is a critique of a civilisation that imagines itself as modern and that merely virtualises its knowledge of nature. A particular interpretation is given to the question the artist had asked long before in the title of one of his exhibitions: “where is the forest I am painting?”
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