Csontó Lajos - Verba Andrea szerk.: Csontó Lajos: Munkák (PMMI kiadványai - Kiállítási katalógusok 16. Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, Szentendre, 2005)

1999

fWD JET - RUB STILL HOT IN THE BEGINNING, Lajos Csontó painted letter [initials?!. ... Initially, he presented these on small boards with hard lines made with brush and paint, repainted several times. It was a sort of earthy, "healthy" form of painting; the letters could be read together a little irregularly - these were not truly linguistic signs, rather stamps, which pressed themselves into the eye of the spectator with their welded screen. Then came a seemingly sharp change, textimages appeared in pretty oval frames; the decorum was only visible inside the frame, what remained of the art of painting was thinking in serial terms. At this point, a marble magnified individual letters from the background of the lifeless text, which, if read together, formed a text: and yet and still not (Bolt Gallery. September 19971. Through the magnification, tautologicalty, Csontó smuggled meaning into the text-background treated and interpreted as an ornament, an image. The assertions annulled lor, from another aspect, reinforced! each other in the same way visual representation conveyed it to us. When after a lengthy silence Csontó returned with the exhibition I Understand Everything, Dad, (Vintage Gallery, November 19991, in my view, the sharp change and the surprise envisioned in the new ..scheme" of the relationship of text and HflftfS HŰSÉG / FRKE FRITHFUltiBSS ff fotó / black and white photo, 98x98 cm Paksi Képtár. Paks / Paks Gallery