József Baksai | Everything Flows

solo exhibition

Nakedness.
The state of the body without a sense of shame...
Paradisiacal, uncorrupted protection, without the excitement of temptation...
An icy, swirling, bare defenselessness...
The complete exposure and vulnerability of the male body losing its innocence...
The masculine buttocks of an angel with bleeding wings...
A martyr wading through the currents of rivers, Saint Christopher cloaked in his faith, carrying the naked child Jesus...
 A genitals covered with a veil, burdened by shame — a symbol of awakening consciousness and new beginnings...

Ecce homo. Behold the Man. And hidden invisibly in his existence, the “recreated” companion... the Woman...
// Katalin Kállai, Editor-in-Chief of Új Írás Online

In the artist’s oeuvre, which is built on duality, seemingly contradictory yet mutually complementary pairs of concepts are explored. His symbolic figures, arranged into signs within metaphysical spaces, come together to form transcendent compositions.
His latest exhibition leads the viewer through the stations of hidden meanings behind the openly revealed male body.
Among other things, we see male bodies in the prime of their strength, yet marked by signs of brokenness; angels stripped of gender identity but astonishingly masculine; an ancient, prematurely aged child playing at war — all raw, naked existences, set within a seemingly chaotic yet, in its cohesive force, infinitely pure world. A world where modernity bursts into a turbulent, hand-molded, brush-painted material that rebels even against itself, reimagining ancient myths.

The exhibition is open until 30 May, Monday to Friday from 12 PM to 6 PM at the Faur Zsófi Gallery.