Die Galerie Frey präsentiert in der Ausstellung „SYNCHRON“ von Csaba Fürjesi die neuen Arbeiten des Künstlers, die ausschließlich mit seiner besonderen Drucktechnik entstanden sind. Er entwickelte die klassische Hochdrucktechnik weiter; für diese grafische Tätigkeit hat er bereits in mehreren Ländern Preise gewonnen. In Anerkennung erhielt er 2020 den Slavi-Soucek-Preis des Landes Salzburg mit der Möglichkeit, in der Cité des Arts in Paris zu arbeiten.
Seine Arbeiten zeichnen sich durch ein hohes Maß an Präzision aus. Seine Themen drehen sich um den Alltag, den er in individueller Formulierung präsentiert. Er denkt meist in Serien und Zyklen – von grafischen Serien über Installationen bis hin zu figuralen Ausdrücken.
In the last twenty-five years, Csaba Fürjesi has created works of art that include painting, drawing and photography, with a special emphasis on prints. His graphic oeuvre contains instances of a certain overstepping of standard graphic procedure and a turning to various possibilities with regard to the limits of book-printing techniques (relief printing). He is particularly interested in what innovations can be achieved with various materials on surfaces; he even experiments with physical and chemical processes. Just as in his paintings, the artist tinkers with a process of reciprocal shifting such as can arise through a sort of counterpoint of layering techniques and the preparation of surfaces.
In his works, Csaba Fürjesi mirrors the world as it is: complex, diverse and full of inconsistencies. By including scenes from daily life in his processes of pictorial invention, his oeuvre presents a world that is simultaneously innocuous and surreal. His works thereby reflect as well on concepts such as time and space-time, cultural memory, common experiences, and a mental activation of the past in the present. —Séamus Kealy
