Acb Gallery presents the third solo exhibition of Ferenc Ficzek (1947-1987). Ficzek’s short career of only two decades is characterised by exceptionally focused visual research and an experimental approach independent of medium.
Ficzek’s art matured under the tutelage of Ferenc Lantos and in the course of his activity as founding member of the avant-garde artist collective Pécs Workshop, established in 1968, which has recently become ever so widely known owing to several local and international exhibitions and publications.
His core propositions revolved around representation: he explored the formative power of representation and human perception, sometimes in a more analytical, even scientifically methodical manner, sometimes mixed with humour, using free and inventive solutions.
The subject of his works can be a human figure illuminated from an extraordinary angle or a stool as well as the illumination that scans and delineates the object or the plasticity that results from the interplay of light and shadow phenomena.
Photography, graphics, painting and even the moving image, which Ficzek used in his works of artistic quality at the Pannonia Film Studio and the Animation Film Factory of Cologne, are equally important among his techniques and treated as equal in terms of experimentation.
Acb’s latest exhibition of artworks from Ficzek’s coherent but tragically brief oeuvre presents a representative selection of moulded – or rather embossed – canvases, which can be regarded as unique products of post-war Hungarian art, with a focus on problems of plane and plasticity as well as the multiperspectival character of forms and the lyricism inherent in the abstraction of objects.