NYAB Event - Szabolcs Veres "Hyle"

Szabolcs Veres "Hyle"

Spencer Brownstone Gallery

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In this new body of work, Romanian artist Szabolcs Veres presents a bold neo-expressionist re-imagining of art historical themes of classical portraiture. He employs these traditions as starting points in his canvases, proceeding to break them down in paintings that dramatically collapse distinctions between subject and object, and push his work toward a sumptuous, often disturbing visceral resolution.

Veres proposes a loosely gestural yet mostly figurative painting though carefully avoiding narration or any illustrative visual discourse. His "subjects" allow him to merge landscape, human and animal presence through which he convincingly exploits his potential as a truly impressive colorist. If the grotesque has been seen as merely the principle of disharmony run wild, or was relegated to the cruder species of the comic, Veres’s vision on the ugly is a fundamentally ambivalent thing, a violent clash of opposites, and hence, in some of its forms at least, is an appropriate expression of the problematical nature of existence.