Virtual/ online exhibition

Zsolt Tibor

Lukas Feichtner Galerie Viewing Room

17 Nov 2020 - 28 Aug 2021

"The Vienna based artist Zsolt Tibor developed an individualistic form of drawing. His works develop not organically, but through the addition of elements from his vocabulary of consistently recurring motifs, such as details of buildings, animals, heraldic symbols, magazines, bottles, figures, hands or vehicles. His artistic creativity is based on the appropriation, depletion and superimposition of meanings, on the juxtaposition and combination of set pieces, and on the separation of signifier and signified. At the same time, Tibor is interested only in the form of his motifs, not in their significance."

Zsolt Tibor's work displayed at the Lukas Feichtner Galerie Viewing Room comprises a series of multi media drawings mostly on two dimensional surfaces such as paper and cardboard. Tibor's work harbours a particularly appealing use of colour contrasts that reflect the juxtaposition of the medias used within the piece. The drawings are bright, bold and eclectic in appearance, intriguing and somewhat childlike with a free spirited flare. Tibor's use of composition and texture is incredibly aesthetically pleasing to me and inspires me to approach my practice with less of a concrete goal in mind and to loosen up with the tools I'm working with. Tibor's work reminds me that sometimes the process of creating an image is just as important as the end result, and to abandon any perfectionism and absolutes. The subtle use of figurative reference in the artist's work is also appealing to me as my work often features figurative detail in the form of nude bodies, Tibor's approach to art work is incredibly different to mine which makes it all the more intriguing. Tibor's lack of care towards the significance behind his motifs is the exact opposite to my philosophy, which again I find very interesting. After exploring this exhibition I would like to experiment with working more freely, on paper, to loosen up and create with more spontaneity and see where I end up in the process.