At the same time we live days that are reasonable and illogical, rushed and sometimes cause a sudden halt, many time these are homey, other times they seem weird. From these days one captures or ignores a moment, a small piece of reality and seeks to make it interpretable, processable. Boldi and Mózes Incze select similarly. The idea, which goes back to old traditions in the field of art, is that the range of possibilities of interpretation manifested in a work of art stops you, the momentum of the present, in a sense, it also provides an opportunity to relive and rethink various issues. The current exhibition is a joint selection which covers the careers of both artists and provides examples from earlier periods to the present day. And perhaps it also shows what are the significant cornerstones in terms of thought and technical realization that lend an exciting harmony to sculptures and paintings.
In his paintings, Mózes Incze examines the possibilities and constraints of human existence in the 21st century. The beautiful, deep tones, expressive forms and bodies shrouded in mystical light offer the promise of a desired harmony which at the same time is always immediately enclosed in parentheses. The virtuality that penetrates between sacredness and reality simultaneously opens horizons that previously seemed inaccessible and at the same time it binds the individual himself, the individual’s possibilities of manifestation. In his works, the creator researches the goals, principles and patterns that control the human body and mind. He is interested in the simple, visible, and perceivable, so called human experience of the complex systems of the world with increasing and accelerating intensity. His works are the custodians of the search for a place of free thought. That is, one of the main goals is to find ways to express what is happening to us, the man of today. Boundaries of the human flesh is extended by composing it into an artificial, mechanical environment, most of the time by flashing sacred contents, for the representation of which he seeks new forms and environments. Among the symbolic motifs of the paintings there are cables, usb connectors and chargers, flash drives, speakers, sockets or the red ribbon, whose arch – running in the hands of the man – gives an insight into a very different world, it promises the possibility of a different way of life. The artist creates an intellectual tension in the composition that provides a complex spectacle, where the members of the unfolding figure are practically tangled with the space without the reference point. His image associations have an increased need for the play of the recipient’s mind to be set in motion so that the spectacle is fulfilled in the viewer’s own mind.
Boldi’s strong attraction to the stone is immediately reflected in the meticulously processed, finely curved, perfectly polished surfaces of his figures. It is a challenge to render the whole worlds of thought in stone that is floating in front of the artist’s eyes in the making of his works. The female figures made of high-quality Carrara marble or the ones made of bronze cast experimented over many years, shrouded in dark patina were inspired by antique sources. Despite the high degree of stylization, the primary source of his abstraction-prone, closed compositions is always a kind of naturalistic way of thinking. Human body is in its focus, in this case the woman stands in the center of the modern approach, yet in a clear expression reduced to basic forms. The female figures, created with moderate lyricism, comprise complex systems of symbols which are the manifestations of the previously mentioned classical traditions, arts, times of the day, or creation and birth. Looking at Boldi’s works, it can be said that the artist implements an extremely conscious, discursive artistic program, a unique, well-identifiable language of forms in each of his works, which is captivated by the professional treatment of the material and the blinding white of lights and shadows on mirror-smooth surfaces.
What is decisive for both artists is to examine how man in general and the individual are related to the world; how the vieweralways recreates himself and the medium around him differently; how he becomes a transparent sign, and last but not least, what the points of connection arethat link the artwork – be it a sculpture or a painting – to our age, our days, and to the man of today.