Beke László (szerk.): Instruktiv + Inter + Konkret. Művészet Malom Szentendre, 21. November - 26. Januar 2015 (Sankt Augustin, 2014)
14. Ákos Matzon
My thoughts in painting It is first and foremost my thoughts that I would like to formulate and express in painting. These thoughts, however, are part of my own personal, private self, and I do not wish nor would I be able to share them with everyone. Rather I offer them for contemplation, to enable the formation of independent opinions. Painting that uses only a few colors, that is monochrome, has always inspired me the most, particularly the color white. Possibly so that the cavalcade of colors would not disturb (or influence the viewer in his or her perception of) the activity, the dynamism, and the independent life, that evolves out of the play of light and shade that otherwise occurs in my many-layered reliefs. The “colorfulness” of whites, which manifests itself in tonal variations and on the surfaces responding in diverse ways to light, simultaneously isolates the various elements and ensures a connection between them, thereby making it possible to attain the compositional goal. My other “all-knowing” color, the dark blue that is almost black, behaves in an entirely different manner. It receives-engulfs light, and this content dramatically enriches the message. The various type of lines and networks of lines (this includes for example the mirror strips) on my reliefs serve the work’s true and conceptual fabric, the unit of its structure. The multicolored quality therefore manifests itself not in the colors themselves, but in the “layers” of the ideas, in their differential nature. In the creation of an individual work of art I am unable to tear myself away from the influence of the mentality and the forms of contemporary architecture. I seek to display as much as possible with as few forms as possible in the picture, to express space and depth as much as possible with the layering of two-dimensional geometric shapes. Solymár, 2014. 169
