The title of the exhibition, taken from the song “Seaside” by Európa Kiadó, indicates that the works on display are on the borderline between the material “reality” that can be perceived by our senses and the metaphysical phenomena and illusions created by painting and glass techniques.
The three artists, who use different techniques, share a knowledge of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde artistic tendencies, especially pop-art, op-art and abstract painting traditions, whose stylistic features are incorporated, sometimes only quoted, reminiscent, but reinterpreted, in a new way, through a modern visual language.
The colour and shape variations and layers of the works, mainly geometric abstract motifs, create illusionistic, multidimensional “spaces”, often involving digital imaging and design in the visual game.
Zsuzsanna Kóródi’s works – which can be considered as paintings, objects and reliefs – reinterpret the artistic heritage of op-art with their iridescent, vibrant surfaces. Kóródi creates her optical illusions by combining traditional glass with contemporary digital technologies. She is constantly driven by new ideas and solutions in terms of content and technology, reflecting our accelerated world and the increasingly virtual way of being.
Bea Kusovszky uses the tools of painting, but also digital imaging methods in her design processes, to create works based on moiré-like point systems and gradient colour transitions rooted in pop art. The depth of the image created between the superimposed layers and sliding over each other creates a sense of infinity, opening up new dimensions. In her most recent paintings, which create the illusion of paper folds, the artist is interested in the rhythm of the relationship between the lines, playing with the thickness of the lines and the resulting light and shadow effects.
Peter Somody is concerned with the surface of the paintings, the relationship between the different materials and the aesthetic quality they create, and reveals the substance of them through the material qualities of the work. The system of relationships, composed of geometric and biomorphic shapes that are thought through but often instinctively applied to the canvas, gives room for free associations.