We call a painter a man: a man whose finger – hand – eye – brain, in some organic relationship, perhaps never exhaustively explained, but in some mysterious way of eternal mysteries, never ceasing, works continuously and inseparably, in an inseparable way.
The soul operates them because it wants to soar freely, the emotion elevates them, the spirit snatches matter out of itself, biological gesture out of biology, the whole of the snatched penny-farthing, making it into image, vision, vision, even immaterial. A new reality is born when the painter is not only a painter but also an artist. This kind of reality is called pictorial reality.
Integrated, coordinated, since the researches of John Neumann and Jean Piaget, it has been called so for some decades. Behold the perpetual motion, the perpetuum mobile. So it does exist! It’s called the Painter.”
Attila Kovács – On the pretext of the works of András Gál (1996)
András Gál (1968) is a member of the young generation of painters who were active participants in, and at the same time representatives of, the artistic radicalism that prepared and laid the groundwork for the post-war ideology of expanding the boundaries of art.
Gál has been working with monochrome painting since the 1990s. His art is characterised by a rigorous use of colour and form. His works are defined by a single colour, its shades and tones.