József Csató

József Csató

József Csató
(°1980, H)
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.

József Csató's oeuvre evokes an immediate feeling of reliance. It is like coming home to well-known genres such as landscape, portrait, still life, narrative, and abstraction. Hints of recognition play with imagination. With a colour palette that makes sombre and lively clash until they embrace each other, the artist creates his free haven where wonder, confusion and chaos receive an honourable mention. The scenes and still lifes are brimming with life and noise as they move into tense compositions, with an exceptional eye for balance and the power of silence.

For Csató, painting is a continuous negotiation with form. Wobbly patterns and totemic, over-scaled, anthropomorphic components pulsate with personality. The artist collects the players on his canvases intuitively. Starting from sketches, he doodles ideas that ultimately never seem to fit on the canvas. ‘A painting is a painting’, he accepts, ‘and plans are to deviate from.’ The paintings have a thin, abstract layer as a nest for the dramaturgy of abstraction and figuration that unfolds later. His technique using both acrylic and oil on canvas gives plenty of room to play with the fluidity of forms. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon through which illusion invites faces to be interpreted as arbitrary shapes. There is no direct focus on the creation of anthropomorphic figures. They arise from this whimsical play of the brain, and the artist moves along with what appears as a surprise. In the moment of chance, the confused form shows its true face; the artist then decides to keep what he sees and develops it further. Many small figures dance across the surface or one larger almost breaks out of the frame. Their fluid character does not bow to the boundaries of the canvas. When exhibited, new drawings can grow between the different works of art. Csató describes painting as mountaineering. He begins his journey, but soon notices he has forgotten something and returns, after which he takes another route back up. This happens over and over again. The struggle with composition, the incessant stream of forms born out of the search for solutions, and the constant surprise are the boundless incentives with which he intentionally creates his chaos where references and associations reach their full potential.

Excerpt of the text by Femke Vandebosch 2023

Artworks

József Csató
Faces, 2023
Oil, acrylic on canvas in artist frame
115 x 170 cm

József Csató
Touch touch , 2023
Oil, acrylic on canvas
110 x 95 cm

József Csató
Skin moments, 2022
Oil, acrylic on canvas
140 x 160 cm

József Csató
Padron Collection, 2022
Oil, acrylic on canvas
150 x 175 cm

József Csató
Serpentines in new colors, 2022
Oil, acrylic on canvas
140 x 160 cm

József Csató
When I rub my eyes, 2022
Oil, acrylic on canvas
100 x 190 cm

József Csató
Tamed the beast with a ball, 2022
Oil, acrylic on canvas in artist frame
95 x 130 cm

József Csató
Cave collections IV, 2022 - 2023
Aquarel on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

József Csató
Cave collections V, 2022 - 2023
Aquarel on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

József Csató
Sun,shelter,sun, 2022
oil, acrylic on canvas
110 x 135,5 cm

József Csató
Irregular collection of objects and creatures, 2022
oil, acrylic on canvas
185,5 x 130,5 cm

József Csató
Touch and see, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
175 x 150 cm

József Csató
Bird call III, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm

József Csató
Bird call I, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm

József Csató
Untitled ritual , 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
140 x 130 cm

József Csató
Before and after the feast, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm

József Csató
Ball of Louis, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
150 x 175 cm

József Csató
Keen on balance, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
160 x 140 cm

József Csató
Hospitality for no one, 2022
oil acrylic on canvas
105 x 95 cm

József Csató
Fading sun, 2021
Oil, acrylic on canvas
74 x 84 cm

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