Feszítés

silkscreenprint / szitanyomat
100x70 cm

Unframed
Signed

Arranging these basic forms into a consistent series of infinite variations of colour and shape emphasised different characteristics of the forms. Due to the technique of alternating static and dynamic elements, together with the interplay of colours, where the strength and shade of a colour depends on the one next to it, Fajó’s works become pulsatingly ambiguous.

János Fajó (1937-2018) is one of the unavoidable leading figures of Hungarian constructivist geometric art. His work as a teacher, exhibition organiser and graphic design spanned countries and extended beyond Europe. In his pedagogical, literary and editorial work, he addressed artistic issues that are still valid and instructive today. The basic artistic truths that Fajó articulated not only in his painting, sculpture and graphic works, but also in his writings and textbooks are valid for art in all countries.

His work is structured around several emblematic motifs. By creating grandiose variations and versions of the circle, the square and the triangle, the artist, who abstracted natural forms to the extreme, built up a unique set of motifs, which makes his name unmistakable.