Sensaria Team

sensaria-1-274x183The crowd swarmed along the streets of Toledo, below the summer sunshine. The sudden idea came when returning from the El Greco museum: let us make a picnic over the city, from where Greco painted the famous townscape. We climbed up to the rocks along the steep side, bringing some bottles of wine. Fresh of white wine, old of red wine. We jumped off several hundred of years.

sensaria-2-274x183 sensaria-3-274x183

Nobody remembered, when was the decision (that time or later) to paint a picture together, with a joint effort, as the great foregoers did. The opportunity came just now, when the local district government was lending a large empty retail unit for one month, to promote the painting in the society. As above the studio of Tiziano before, you can read: Sensaria (‘fresh air’), calling in the passers-by. A note on the door: Open Studio, open daily from 10 to 18.

sensaria-4-274x182 sensaria-5-274x183

Members of the Sensaria Association are working and exhibiting here. They established the association in 2003 at the University of Finearts, classmates of Zsigmond Károlyi’s class. Other young artists, having interests in the traditional art, joined later. The art historians are talking on new figurality nowadays. Pictures of landscapes, still-lifes, portraits.

sensaria-6-274x409 sensaria-7-570x381

“The picture on the wall is shivering alone, waiting for someone coming and addressing it. Some crazy people made a group, dealing with showing the world as it was created: grass grows, sun shines, man and woman are living… We want to paint pictures, what are understandable without university studies as well. The challenge of the picture is to grab me, while the job of the painter is to get the most out of the theme. A picture is good if honest.” They are talking on what they think freely.

sensaria-8-274x183 sensaria-9-274x183

Lehel Kovács paints the wounds of landscape, what nobody would paint. Tamás Lőrincz creates self-portraits, mirror images, and an F-1 car, as a symbol of the energy inside. Ábel Szabó portrays the objects, dealing by no arts, even if these items are effecting the lives of many. Krisztián Horváth raises the perishableness and rebirth into philosophical high. Dániel László paints his daughter walking in the garden, or his son in the “Terror’s House” Museum, when he created a series on the ‘socialist’poverty, titled “Mátyás Rákosi and his time”.

sensaria-10-274x183 sensaria-11-274x183

They delineate our country, abandoned industrial zones, warren-like building estates, and the lands lying fallow. They observe the little island around a dilapidated farmhouse inside the plow-land. Fields are re-divided now! Who knows, residents departed hastily perhaps, maybe expelled, gas and electricity lines are living, crop is inside.

sensaria-12-274x183 sensaria-13-274x183

For them, sacrality is not a gag of the avant-garde; they have not a cynical approach to the religion. The intimate air of a church, the towering figure of the columns, the small statue of the little Jesus and Mary, made by Zsófia Balogh – these are the answers how our new generation feels about the faith.

sensaria-14-570x381 sensaria-15-274x410

The modern art has some self-mutilation nature. Until the modernism, people managed themselves and their environment in more proportion. Some people think that they become trendy and advanced, if denying. An artist can be minimalist even if looking for simple themes, working out in more expressive mode.

sensaria-16-274x409 sensaria-17-570x381

Visitors were variegated. A girl came in a real punk attire, rings in her ears, wearing black T-shirt, field dungarees, boots. Despite her aggressive lookout, she was very nice and inquiring, of delicate and sensitive soul. A woman often visited them. She was standing before a picture for a long time. “I was greatly wondering what she was thinking.”

sensaria-18-274x183 sensaria-19-274x183

The last day of opening, there was the two pictures of the joint effort presented. The “Budakalász landscape” was a self-developed composition. Somebody arrived and painted what he/she thought. Lehel painted the sky, Krisztián the mountains, Dani the meadows and the figures, and Tamás the big wine bottle. Ábel decided that he must not put more to the theme. For the other picture “Toledo” we have some discussion and photos. Everybody used his/her own palette, so the colors are mixed differently at the limits. “We could surprise even each others.”

sensaria-20-274x183sensaria-21-274x183

What happened at this retail unit in the Bartók street? Based on a good intention, there were an avalanche of experience, a coming-out, joint hopes. We have learned that the thorough self-knowledge and the acceptance of how others see us can build a strong confidence in us. In this way we need not to give up our individuality, everybody can find his/her position, and at the end, the great work comes into being.

7/6/2012 Budapest

sensaria-22-274x205

Tagok / Members:

Balogh Zsófia
Horváth Krisztián
Horváth Roland
Kovács Lehel
László Dániel
Lőrincz Tamás
Szabó Ábel

USER COMMENTS ( 0 )

Follow Comments via RSS feed. Trackback Comments from your website.