Another exhibition I visited yesterday was a solo exhibition of István Ducsai, that managed to not only surprise me, but also offered me a very different experience. As a regular at exhibitions, you may think you've seen it all, but you get a very unique experience at each exhibition and a surprise that tells you, there's always something new to see.
As I'm always saying, the first impression when you step into the gallery is priceless. It gives you an idea about what you're going to see and I'm always trying to formulate a couple of keywords based in what I see and this time I have three: colorful, sharp and geometric and after seeing all the artworks exhibited, can confirm my keywords were correct and you'll see why.
This is the view you see once you step into the main room.
Trinidad Painter Woman
Most likely you can see what region the model represent, without reading the title of the painting. I'm not going to lie, it was a bit surprising as this topic, I mean Caribbean people featured by local painters.
Caribbean Awakening
Now you can see why my title is "Colorful, Sharp & Geometric". If you look at both paintings, you can admit that are both colorful, sharp refers to some forms that in real life are not as sharp, or not sharp at all and geometric ... let me explain.
If you have a good look, you can see the body of both models are made of a collection of geometric shapes, but not only. If you look around, the objects in the paintings are also geometric shapes. Look at the table above. It is a regular table, yet there are different triangles on the top part.
Although it's not something new, or unique, you don't see this style too often, or at least not at the exhibitions I've visited. There was one, or maybe two that I can remember, and that was the exhibition displaying the work of the art school students, which makes me think this is a requirement for them.
Unrequited Love
We're changing models here, as we don't talk about Caribbean people, we see a gentleman and a lady from times when men were wearing suits and hats, but not style. The geometric aspect is present here too. Wile I was looking at these paintings was wondering which style is more difficult to paint. The normal way or this geometrical style? As you need to basically modify everything, starting from the body, to the objects in the painting.
Tango
Tango obviously, what else? Here the geometric shape style is more obvious and maybe the piano keys are represented at well.
Music
Looking at these shapes, where normally they shouldn't be, takes me back to high school when we had technical drawing classes and had to replicate 3D objects. This type of art is somewhat similar, but not the same as basically you use the shadows as geometric shapes, or I don't understand what it is about :)
This painting was reserved, so no title here, which is a shame. I have to mention that all the paintings exhibited were for sale and prices were ranging between 2000 euro and 4000 euro. You can see on the first two photos the size of the paintings and can decide if it's a lot or not, but size is not the only factor to take into consideration when determining price size.
Hah! The little paper reveals the title still, so this one is called Trinidad Attic Room and costed 2500 euro. Someone liked it a lot.
This is it for today. I hope I could surprise you a bit with this exceptional style. Let me know what you think, I'm really curious.
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