Szittyakürt, 1978 (17. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)
1978-09-01 / 9. szám
Page 6 FIGHTE* JUNE 1978 FINE ART LÁSZLÓ DÚS — HIS VICTORY IN ART In 1523 Ajtósi Dürer Albert, more widely known as Albrecht Dürer, wrote in Nuremberg, Germany, “...I speak the truth: that a man of minor insight will not achieve in a beautiful work that another will achieve in a plain one; this is the reason one man sketches something with his pen on a paper in one day and is a better artist than another who strenuously labors at his work for a year.” (E. Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, Princeton U. Press, N.J. 1955, pg. 283.) 455 years later another artist, but now in the U.S.A. in Cleveland, Ohio, has shown his hand to the world—the hand which seems to have been chosen by God to be extraordinarily creative and productive. This artist László Dús, although barely in his thirties, already demonstrated an abundance of expertise in draftsmanship, color-control and the understanding of the physiognomy of spatial relationship; in his drawings, painting and graphics. His art without a doubt will most profoundly reshape the vanguard of pictorial arts today. It’s purposes relate with a swiftness rarely seen before. The influence that the art of Dús will bring to bear on the approaches of painting and graphics will be a “future shock” in the Western art world —particularly in a technologically wondrous America where cultural innovations are often received with only cautious enthusiasm. Yet, even now, László Dús —who is fast becoming the pride of the Magyars and of Hungarian culture — presently has not one but two one-man shows simultaneously running in two significant galleries in two different towns and states. The Park West Galleries in Southfield, Michigan started showing his “unique works on paper” on May 5th. The other one is the Peterson Fine Art Gallery in Edina(Mpls.), Minnesota which opened the Dús exhibit on May 19th. What is so unique in Dús’ art is its success. He uses a technique rarely exploited, for some practically new, the technique of “reduction.” This he masterfully combines with the needed additions of shapes, colors and textures to further augment his imaginative and rich compositions. The world is full of wonders, visible and invisible spatial extentions, lively vigour and dynamic time factors — all worthy of discovery and revelation. The true artist seeks to experience reality with its complexity and paradoxicality both on the aesthetical and the psychological levels. This experience he aims to relate to his fellow men that they might share in a new way of looking at the world that surrounds them. Neither the Tachism of the German Wols and the American Pollock, nor the Constructivism of the Russian Pevsner and the Dutch Mondrian can satisfy him although he greatly admires them, because they are incomplete in their “outre” ...“What you find in one cannot be found in the other!”, expostulates László Dús and “A synthesis is needed. For me it is most important to bring into harmony what is extreme and diverse in life,” professes the young Hungarian-born artist. It is as though the East and West met in the art of Dús. It’s an unlikely meeting, a union of the paradoxical, until Dús, thought inconceivable. It is no wonder that this talented Magyar artist won the first prize in the Oklahoma Art Center’s 20th Annual Print and Drawing Exhibit this Spring in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA! The prize wining unique work was entitled: "Reflective Moments” and was submitted by the Contemporary Graphics of Shaker Square, Cleveland, Ohio, an outstanding local gallery an promoter of Dús’ art. This success has been followed by Dús receiving a two page spread in the May/78 issue of the Art News advertising his works in full color! With Dús a prodigious step has been achieved in the history of Hungarian art! His fresh technique lends itself best to the search for the new and truth. His eloquent visual vocabulary serves him well in his desire to express his findings and to emulate the enthusiasm that his superfluity creates. These are not only symptoms of the youthful artist László Dús. This is a scrupulosity that an outstanding European academy can bring out in a genuinely sensetive and genotipically fortunate young man. Aurél Bernáth, the respected master taught him at Budapest until 1967. By 1978 his works are honored, exhibited and bought in his native Hungary, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Germany, Canada and all over these great United States of America! His artistic life is complemented by the fact that he married an extremely beautiful, talented, and productive lady artist. His wife, Kathy, is a graduate in architecture and interior design also from Budapest. With their only child, Bernadette, they found their way to Germany in 1973. Since 1974 the Dús family resides and creates in the United States. by Prof. Andor S. Paposi-Jobb
