József Csató: Pocket Volcano
Pocket Volcano – „Only colours and forms matter”
József Csató presents his works created last year in the exhibition entitled Pocket Volcano. So far, Csató has been best known for his art applying formal design of Art Brut / Outsider Art, and are therefore visceral and spontaneous. He mainly uses the tools of naive painting and primitivism, but sometimes he also adds easy-going, exotic solutions in his timeless portraits and still lives.
The apparent change in the Pocket Volcano series is that abstraction gains even greater importance as a result of his experiments with surface. Csató unconsciously submerged himself in his foil, paper and palette collages, and the colours, smoke, and the volcanic shapes slowly penetrated into his pictures. In spite of his rich, baroque factures, it is still only colour and form that matter to Csató.
An interesting interaction between flat and dimensional surfaces can be observed at the exhibition. Although we do not see the well-known head and limb-free figures in the pieces of Pocket Volcano, Csató’s trade-mark two-dimensional, shapeless or stretched forms are now complemented by brilliantly performed surface experiments. The complicated, spontaneous details reflect Csató’s utter sincerity and playful phlegmatic manner. His vibrant colours and rich facture not only offer aesthetic pleasure to the viewer, but also engage in involuntary thinking about technical solutions.