Kókay Krisztina (Esztergom, 2005)

JUDIT JÓRY

Krisztina Kókay

Krisztina Kókay is a graphic type. She draws. Drawing is the most personal domain of the fine arts. Drawings born from the first heat of the fever of creation reveal the artist's personality in more detail than huge works. The folds, tears and segments on the surface of the drawings create a unique territory. It's a unique surface where the meticulous details and elaborated fragments are cut up by sharp, brave lines of fracture and eye-catching gaps (hiatuses), forming borderlines or links. Thousands of lines, thousands of gestures cover the background. Kókay draws her sets of mountains, towers, walls, arches and gardens with soaring faith. Her works are luxuriant architectural and geological - synclinal - structures. The series' intricate mountains recall the artificial mountains of advanced ancient cultures: the pyramids, the man-made hills, the seven and nine story tower temples and the mountains of nature. The mountain's symbolic interpretation is the center of the universe, of an empire. The mountain is power, it is a place of worship, and, according to the apocalyptic traditions, it is the starting point of conquering the world. This time the artist draws on the gobelin. The detailed fabric, the mosaic-like, meticulous tapestry also resembles a mantle. "The characteristic contour forms of meaningful significance are divided by a second layer, which gives order to the beautifully refined structure.” This mountain is also monumental. And the characteristic colors, Kókay's colors. There runs on this mountain also "a luminous path, a meandering, esoteric labyrinth."

SOUPLESSES HONGROISES, CATALOG, MONS, BELGIUM, 1999