Gábor Király: Guests
Gábor Király’s independent exhibition presents his very best pieces created in the past three years. His flat figures painted with coal or vibrating, bright colours strike with immense power, while even in company they seem to be considerably lonely. His wilful characters resignedly bear the burden of civilization on their shoulders.
His style reflects on art historical traditions, it is reminiscent of Art Brut (or in Anglo-Saxon areas, Outsider Art). Characteristically it is a ragged, indelicate, and due to its spontaneity and “unculturedness” a visceral form of art, where the presence of passion and the unconscious are less controlled. By Király’s own account, African American culture of the 1970s and 1980s and the genre of graffiti left a footprint on his colour usage, and compositional structures. His materials are often re-used heavy and dense wooden plates, once parts of furniture, wardrobe doors, headboards and tables.