Carrying both contemporary and Neo-primitivism traits, József Csató’s mysterious, surreal portraits and figural images of life as well as the mural-like desaturated colours are expressive and archaic. His works unite various references in art history such as fairy-tale or pop cultural icons, surrealism, figurative and abstract elements. Using a minimal and witty language, he responds to the modern society filled with people’s sufferings, anxieties and everyday feelings. 

Csató’s paintings often show everyday objects and life situations, which are sometimes traced back to ironic, other times banal and humorous transcripts. Recurrence of the artist’s sketchbook drawings, namely ‘sketchbook-mythologies,’ Csató’s new series has small pencil lines become human sized projections of a universe full of dreams and marvelous creatures. Nature-inspired forms and motifs such as smoke, volcano, rocks, body parts and plants can be seen throughout the canvases, while hybrid figures resembling geometric shapes, tubes, drops, tiles and purely fictional signs emerge constantly.

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