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Published 2016-10-01

Gabor Szucs, Painter

Gabor’s art is inspired by computer technology, natural sites on the Earth and other planets, space, time and philosophy. He deploys traditional and abstract expressionist painting techniques to convey his ideas about space and cyberspace.

 

Foz de Iguaçu is a city in Brazil that is a base for visiting the world’s largest waterfalls, Iguazu Falls. Gabor’s painting, Foz de Iguaçu, is inspired by the energy of the water mass, running through the waterfalls cascades, under the starry sky.

At another place, 140 million miles away, water also used to play prime. Mawrth is a valley in Oxia Palus quadrangle on Mars, where clay was found, which means that water used to be there. Today, only desert remains, as Gabor painted it in flaming terracotta and sand colours in Mawrth.

 

  

 

It is not just the distance, but also time that spans through Gabor’s paintings. The time, however, is presented as in classical philosophy, where it can exist without a temporal sequence. Essential Eternity shows forever and now happening at the same moment.

In Pleasing Confusion attention is paid to what looks like an excessive load of information, occupying a chaotic mind. Far from it - those are organized, reoccurring structures, only created by chance.

 

  

 

Sub 7, SYN Flood and Conficker are inspired by computer science, specifically malware. Light and dark colours take it in turns to compose them, depicting paradoxes, such as fullness and void, brightness and darkness, expansion and compression. Together they represent cyberspace formation.

Gabor uses traditional techniques, such as acrylic painting and combines them with abstract expressionist techniques, which include spraying paint on canvas with a water gun.