Erdélyi, Gábor: No title (2016)

acrylic on satin
Purchased with assistance from the National Cultural Fund, 2018

ERDÉLYI is an outstanding artist of the middle generation, who has been engaged in the analysis of the painting as an object since the beginning of his career. At the beginning of his career, he removed the canvas from the stretcher and placed it in space. Later, he worked on other textiles (silk, gabardine, etc.) instead of canvas, or layered them on top of each other. As a consistent artist, in recent years he has made several works where the monochrome surface reveals an underlying layer of textile, colourful, bright and light, as a complete contrast to the grey, rough textured, rigid painted surface. This is often achieved by disrupting the picture, i.e. by removing the stretcher afterwards. This work is linked to another work (Inverse World, 1998) already in our collection by its silk fabric, but it is also a different, more radical approach to his thinking about painting.