It can be difficult to become a “Renaissance Man” in this day and age. The money-seeking, rushing world is not conducive to the fertilization of a multifaceted spirit capable of introspection, and the all-over digitization does not create an ideal environment for spiritual people.
Who has the time and energy to dive into the depths of creation these days? Because creation is not just a craft activity: a work has depth and real content when the creator experiences the process of creation as a real philosophical and thought journey. He not only concentrates on the object, the material, but also experiences it, and in the process creates the spiritual content that goes beyond matter.
We can now visit such an exhibition at the Imre Madách Cultural Center in Vác. The exhibition of artists Erzsébet Váci Zubovits Györkös and József Vincze from Dunakes was entitled “Rebirth of the Renaissance”. In her opening speech, Lászlón Sátori, the cultural organizer of the diocese of Vác, praised the two artists, both as creators and as intellectual people with different habits. Through their works, he drew attention to the fact that two completely different points of view can give a unified picture of the world, stimulate thinking, and lead to similar conclusions. Two different philosophical bases can discover the same values and point in a similar direction. The opening was made even more elevated by the bravura piano playing of conservatory student Tamás Vincze Oroszki.
The exhibited works are very diverse and different in terms of their genre: small sculptures, more prestigious sculptures, reliefs, graphics, sketches, paintings and fire enamels are the highlight of the exhibition. Both artists are characterized by a conscious choice of materials and professional handling of materials, often thought-provoking and often shocking choices. The small sculptures of Erzsébet Györkös Zubovits are particularly noteworthy: she handles the material with surprising lightness and freshness, modeling it with generous gestures, breathing movement, dynamics, and life into the clay, and then into the bronze that follows it. I would highlight it Don Quixote representation and a backward arrow his little horse.
József Vincze is a master of metalworking: his forged, bent, combined with different materials contain additional meaning, while at the same time drawing attention to very real, present-day problems, dangers, and phenomena. It is worth observing the outstanding sense he has in pairing and combining different materials – stone, bronze, iron. This is clearly observable From where to where? also in his sculpture entitled It’s raining on the other hand, it is worth noticing how the various patina effects prevail on the metal, from warm orange to colder, greenish shades, lending a kind of painting-like quality to the embossed work.
They are both real “Renaissance men”, as rare in today’s world as the white raven… For this reason alone, it is worth visiting Vác these days and visiting the exhibition.
Márton Nyíri
(The exhibition can be visited: until June 14, 2024, during opening hours, Imre Madách Cultural Center, Vác, Dr. Csányi László körút 63, Emelet gallery)
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