Intersections of circles
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Dear Guests! I warmly welcome you to Tibor Csikós's exhibition "Meetings of Circles". I was suggested to open the exhibition by his painter-acquaintance and friend, Dániel Erdélyi, and I would like to thank him for the idea, and Tibor for asking me to do the task. Circles met at that time, two societies, two artist circles were connected. For the previous five years, I had been attending the Doctoral School of Art at the University of Pécs, and every six months we held joint exhibitions with much younger sculptor and painter doctoral students. When I looked at Tibor's paintings, I met a different generation, yet with a similar way of thinking. Reading the artist's biography, I was moved to see how many excellent places, how many high-quality foreign and Hungarian exhibitions he had participated in, and how many awards he had received, which I will not describe here, but rather would like to focus on the connections between the aforementioned ways of thinking. Circles are repeated in the paintings of Tibor Csikós. On a very large scale, they can be clusters in the universe that form galaxies, or planets, stars, celestial bodies. On a microscopic scale, however, we can see microorganisms, cellular organisms that are not visible to the naked eye, dust grains, or air particles. The first image resembles an amoeba, but its white and black circles can also evoke associations with coins or fish scales. We return to the basics, to one of the simplest forms, the circle. When we raise this idea, we may think of someone who wanted to understand the other simplest form throughout her entire life, the square. We can also think of Judit Reigl, who brought the process to life, and inspired by the traces left by prehistoric cave drawings, explored the theme of “Panta rhei”, “Everything changes, everything flows continuously” in her art. In a global context, a third female artist, Yayoi Kusama, should be mentioned in connection with the current exhibition, who continuously creates installations on both planes and in three dimensions from dots and their different sizes and colors. In Tibor Csikós' circles, we see sequential, serial repetition, repetition that creates a process. In the first picture, fish scales become coins, in the second and third pictures, the circles distort into ellipses, curving the flat surface into a square. Further on, the spots on the paintings sometimes turn into cheerful, colorful donuts, other times into airy, light-filled forest details. As in Philipp Glass's repetitive music, minimal changes occur in the melodies, in this case in the image details, we may think that we are hearing the same thing, continuously, yet if we observe the same music at a different moment in time, we may perceive a completely changed music. Tibor Csikós' choice of title is about "Encounters of Circles", that is, a dialogue. The circles touch each other, sometimes intersect, sometimes roll away from each other, like raindrops, bracelets, rings, or life belts. Their companies often just talk to each other, but sometimes they also meet straight lines, and a new kind of dialogue is created. We see forest-like vertical tree trunks, leaves, spots of light, mossy beds. "You have to slow down for plants, or speed up for digitalization," says Ákos Schneider, an aesthete who is a representative of the new generation, in a lecture. The paintings shown here create a kind of new digitalization and pointillism evoking plant motifs, which is linked to the past, but also has representatives among very young artists. Glass artist Zsuzsanna Kóródi creates huge spheres from small parts reminiscent of pixels, István Losonczy paints gigantic color circles using the spectrum of the CMY color system, with a pupil in the center that evokes the association of an eye. Domokos Benyovszky- Szűcs creates pairs of people from tiny paint dots, also using dots and circles and creating a dialogue between the pairs of people born in the painting. The Encounters of Circles, the dialogue in connection with this exhibition is also a special phenomenon in that we can also think of a dialogue between people. It would be important for us to finally learn that circles, societies, generations, or even parties with different perspectives can talk to each other, be in contact and see the good parts in each other's way of thinking. A cylinder, when examined from two perspectives, shows two radically different types of plane shapes. From one perspective, we can see it as a circle, from the other, we can think of it as a rectangle, even though it is the same spatial form. We have systems of comparison, and these are often not the same. Tibor Csikós' exhibition highlights this as well. Circles of different colors must meet, communicate with each other, in order to create an exciting color effect, an interesting masterpiece, or a forward-looking conversation. The above-mentioned dialogue is created in Tibor Csikós' oeuvre. A dialogue between colors, a dialogue between images, and a dialogue between Tibor's painting and graphic work. The works address the audience, interactively involving the viewer, and enter into a dialogue with the recipient, creating the message that "Circles find" are important. Eva Paragi DLA Artist,oppening text