Marghescu Mária - Herpai András: Művészet és tér. Miró, Chillida, Tápies, Uecker és kortársaik grafikái. MűvészetMalom, 2013. júnus 8 - szeptember 1. - Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, C. sorozat: Katalógusok 4. (Szentendre, 2013)

Dr. Ingeborg Weigand-Uhl: Művészet és tér

What do ’emptiness’ and the ’pictorial force’ grasping space mean? The central significance of space became an important theme of art in the second half of the 20th century, after the periods of historicism and naturalism. The exhibition presents a selection of graphic works of this period, in which lines, spots and empty surface prevail. However, empty surface does not refer to lack. According to Morandi, it is a kind of sounding silence or vivid void. Similarly to Morandi, Heidegger defines space as a sort of creative force.

Emptiness has a similar function in Zen drawings or in rests in the music by John Cage. Apart from imagination and intuition, the artist’s experience, talent and qualification are visible in an artwork. In this way, the visible and invisible become completely united, and can be experienced as a whole. Regarding the whole composition, the role of the rhythm appearing on the surface considered as void is similarly important, because its forms the tie which sets the mind aflame. Space as void is the place where the pictorial creative force, using its own language, starts working, and can be felt.

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