149 Soul Paintings a new concept. But the technique of complementing all this manually, with the materials and gestures used in painting, can be seen as a personal intervention, the like of which we see much less often. But this is not self-serving aestheticism. It transforms the image that captures the spatiality of the physical world, making its spiritual essence visible. It transposes the material particularities of the captured moment into the world of thoughts. It turns the mere moment into a temporal continuum. It transforms mundane time into eternal presence. Just as medieval icons are “windows” into the spiritual world, with these large-scale works, Városi cuts a window into the photographs he has taken. Through these, the images that capture the human forms of the body become the instrument of expressing the timelessness of the soul, eternal and everlasting. It is a fabrication of images that overwrites narrative content, an attempt to make the intellectual visible and tangible. It opens the window to our inner occurrences. These artworks allow the soul-matter to be experienced in contrast to the physical. They make the “nonsensical” sensible. His portraits also symbolise the spiritual development of man, the way they display what is imperceptible to us in everyday life. László Lelkes Munkácsy Award-winning graphic artist Evanescence of Time (detail) 2004 100 cm × 200 cm mixed media on plexiglas
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