FINISSAGE // GUIDED TOUR WITH BULLÁS YOSEF

József Bullás (b. 1958) is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Hungarian art. His oeuvre, spanning almost half a century, is the imprint of the work of a restless experimenter, an artist who is constantly exploring.

Bullás's works explore the limits of structures and repetitive systems, relying on optical illusions beyond perception, pushing the possibilities of spatial and planar dimensions. Painted in traditional painting techniques, his oil and acrylic canvases address classical problems of painting, exploring the relationships between composition and space, materiality, vision and illusion. His imagery, vibrant with colour and enriched with optical effects, has stylistic traits of virtuality, complemented by deliberately structured compositions and precise structures. His unique tone and masterly technical solutions make him inimitable.

His latest paintings are inspired by Vera Molnár's Mont Sainte-Victorie series. Her new paintings are based on an iconic bull's-eye grid structure that is unique to her, combined with elements reminiscent of the mountain contours, followed by colour transitions and perspective effects. In doing so, he creates a visual complexity in each of his works that is most reminiscent of early digital visuality. These paintings capture a slice of infinite space, with illusory and repetitive geometric shapes and superimposed spatial planes that open up a new dimension never seen before. His exhibited works are also fundamentally about a deeper understanding of the interrelationship of space, form and colour, where the mystery of disappearance and emergence and the mystery of power collide with the concreteness of lines.