ABOUT

Aron Barath is best known for his abstract paintings, marked by color and the seductive qualities of paint as a substance. Art historian and art critic Rona Kopeczky describes the artist as a chromatogologue and a chromatophone, handing over his place in a noble manner to the colour. The colour dictates the gesture of the artist, freeing itself from contemporary visual culture or communicational trends. What is left is pure, genuine and truthful. Light, substance and colour.

Laying his canvases on the floor, Barath uses colors freely, painting with various materials and tools. Tested and mixed himself are water-based paints which allow his multiple layers to all easily be perceived at once. He uses a variety of brushes, brooms, sponges, and sprayers of different shapes and sizes alongside his handmade tools.

Barath chooses to explore the essence of traces of light, substance, and color in his work, absent from contemporary trends of communication. The selected paintings in the exhibition are studies of light and color through a series of intuitively completed steps. A euphoric kind of action takes place in Barath's studio as he paints interpretively and sometimes dances around his canvases.

Aron Barath (b. 1980, Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia) resides and works in Budapest, Hungary. Barath has had group and solo shows predominately in his home country Hungary. However, the past three years his work has been noticed and lauded internationally, resulting in exhibitions in Warsaw, Poland, Berlin, United States, Vienna, Austria and Kortrijk, Belgium.