Kókay Krisztina (Esztergom, 2005)
How does the graphic artist get into the limelight at the exhibition of a textile artist? The same way she did at the Vigadó Gallery exhibition. Textile artist Krisztina Kókay never makes sketches in preparation for her textile works; her drawings, carrying the same values, discussed above, in abundance, are themselves valid as works of art. The sensitive, micro-structured sheets show the exact date as a completion of the title. The mostly abstract graphical works - with several masterpieces among them (Pain, 1992 and The smell of a lime tree 1,1991) - while full of the suggested silence of spirituality that keeps the storm of emotions under control, are also sensitive seismograms. Their sensual beauty reflecting the artist's explanation of the world and of herself is filled with mysteries. Their nature is sacral, without a doubt. How did Saint Basil the Great of the Cappadocian Fathers speak? "Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment. If such is the earnest, what the perfection? If such the first fruits, what the complete fulfilment?" My friends, if you may, see Krisztina Kókay's works with eyes that see! NEW SPRING, 1998/3, PP.80-81 HARSFA1LLAT III. • THE SMELL OF A LIME-TREE III. • 1995 PAPÍR, TOLLRAJZ • PAPER, INK • 61X44 CM
