Eternal Lingering

It is the personal experience that connects the paintings about my surroundings in the past two-three years. I have been developing these works in ever-widening geographic circles from my home environs in Budapest to different European locations and further to the US.

What interests me is the impact seemingly insignificant public spaces exercise over all of us, that is, I am interested in the Genius Loci, the spirit of the place – that determines mental environment, architecture and naturally painting.

In my compositions I set free the spirit of a place – the layered information hidden in the spectacle. In contrast to the abstractions of the twentieth century, I see the abstraction in the kind of painting that is based on the spectacle and is “recognizable” and that extracts the relations between “things” from these spectacle/s of everyday life.

This series of my paintings is based in a repetitive methodology, in them the ever simpler “buildings” have been transformed into rhythms and painterly musical systems just as it happened in abstract expressionist painting.

However, selecting the right detail and not crossing the borders of recognizability, my paintings always preserve the character of the given locale and its visually accessible complexity–that is, the real Spirit of the Place.

Janos Korodi