KRISTÓFY Dániel

In Kristófy’s work, he tries to approach silence through a distinctly experience-based, surface-driven visual language. Since, for him, the authenticity of art stands or falls on spiritual and intellectual presence and the sincerity of that presence, the choice of visual form is also a consequence of the path he wishes to follow. Images freed from the compulsion of literal representation can explore the relationship between the panel painting, as a mute genre, and a notion already defined by absence (silence, as the complete nonexistence of sound).

These compositions, built on the proportion between surfaces left empty and therefore silent and areas of concentrated information, seek to understand this concept through the tension between calm and strain: sometimes by examining spaces marked by the hand of time, condemned to mute emptiness, fallen out of life’s present; at other times by approaching silence as an individually experienced state that appears within an inner territory enclosed by the psychological walls one builds around oneself.