Kókay Krisztina (Esztergom, 2005)
MÁRIA PROKOPP ... and she dreams everything into it... Krisztina Kókay's tapestries and graphic works In the fall of 2003, within the walls of the splendid Royal Castle, we were treated with the many times prize holder textile and graphic artist Krisztina Kókay's one-man show, complete with several new works. The artist's familiar, warm, softly tinted, rhythmically dynamic and conceptually profound masterpieces - textiles, pastels and drawings - appeared to our view in a delightful setting. The tapestries found their worthy environment in the vaulted living rooms of one of the most artistic Baroque castles of Hungary. It's as if they were made for this place! Krisztina Kókay's works were given a new living space here! From among the new works, I have to highlight the tapestry Leading to you I, and the masterly pastels related to this composition - or rather to the concept of this composition - Under the bridge and journey, paintings of a cosmic world formed by the artistic rhythm of light blues and greens inspired by the sky and the water. I would also like to point out the sensitive ink drawings Roman fragment I-Il and last, but not least, the excellent pastels Kecskemét I-II-III. These works offer more than aesthetic experience: they diffuse profound philosophical ideas and real wisdom. They speak to us! They let us see and sense the purpose of our lives, the truest joys, and they show us the way to reach them! And they do it on a high artistic level and with modesty - similarly to the personality of the artist. From among the earlier major works, we could see again Holiday, selected for the international exhibition called Tapestry held in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts in 2001, and we may soon see it again in Washington. And we were very happy to recognize among the exhibited works the prize winning Petőfi tapestry, inspired by the lines"Shed on me the light and the warmth that gathered into your heart from the face of God." HUNGARIAN APPLIED ARTS, 2004/1., PP.45-47.
