Material made visible
The Heart & Cherry Gallery continues the series with a solo exhibition by István Dukai.
The works in the exhibition move in the border areas of painting, where special geometric shapes and shaped canvases are not merely carriers of meaning, but active shapers of it. The plane ceases to be a neutral surface: the form itself becomes a gesture that evokes the radical turning points of modernism—Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist abstraction or Frank Stella's shaped canvases, where the body of the image already enters the space as a statement.
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The use of special papers further nuances this thinking: the materiality of the medium is not a background, but an independent, sensory factor.
In the case of paper works, embossing plays an important role, complementing the visuality with a tactile dimension. This practice has a strong tradition in Hungarian art: Katalin Hetey's delicate, conceptually disciplined paper works and Tibor Gáyor's constructivist reliefs both mark the boundary where drawing, graphic art, and sculpture converge.
The use of materials consciously turns to nature: special dye plants—chamomile, dandelion, pomegranate—serve as sources of pigment, evoking the centuries-old practice of traditional textile dyeing. This archaic knowledge does not appear as a nostalgic reference, but as a method reinterpreted in a contemporary context, evoking the material approach of arte povera or the organic thinking of Joseph Beuys.