Beke László (szerk.): Instruktiv + Inter + Konkret. Művészet Malom Szentendre, 21. November - 26. Januar 2015 (Sankt Augustin, 2014)
15. Péter Paizs
What is on the Wall? Paizs Péter, Illumination 3D ‘Do you know of any painter who would be able to create a colour other than the spectrum of Sunlight?’ Andre Derain The explanation of the colours of the rainbow has always been in the centre of religion, later on science, while their representation in the centre of art and this is still so today. Descartes’ observations were followed by Newton’s experimentum crucis with prism, proving that colour is one of the phenomena of (sun)light. Light from the sun crossing the Earth’s atmosphere, called optical white, was refracted into its spectral elements and with his prism he made visible that iris, the rainbow appearing on the wall, is a definite order of different colours i.e. the components of white light. Optical polyphony. In the 20th and 21st century abstract painting shows again great concern about the Sun and Newton’s spectrum. Artistic representation of colour and primer light, the mere radiant energy has become intriguing. In the case of my Illumination 3D series phenomenon produced on the surface of the white wall, ‘the reflected rainbow’, is merely similar to iris developed by a prism. On the illuminated, colour-bearing surface of the paintings the interaction of light and paint (matter) comes into being. On my colour pieces the incident light suffers remission, diffused reflection. Polyphony of white light is transformed into iris by the material structure of the paint, thus only those wavelengths can be seen which are reflected by the pigment of its paint (colour) according to its material structure. Physically existent and visible, colourful light arises on the white wall. This way, painting in the traditional sense is only the medium while lighting is the creator of the picture: the ‘non-Newtonean spectrum’. 181
