May 27 - June 27, 2011

BAZIS
contemporary art space
F.D.P. - Fabrica de Pensule, str. H. Barbusse 59-61,
Cluj Napoca

PORTRAITS
artists:  Szabolcs BELENYI
curator: Bogdan IACOB

Romanticist nostalgias and youthful hubris can be detected in the recent works of Belenyi Szabolcs, as his painting refuses to use both the traditional life model and the photographic images as starting point. Belenyi believes in the creative power of extreme subjectivity, in the expressive forcefulness of the medium of painting and in art’s vocation to approach the grandiose topic of the human soul and individuality. As cliché, obsolete or utopian that might sound, his painterly endeavours are nevertheless almost heroic testimonies of an artistic boldness which is adequately matched by his technical mastery of the medium. 
The figures he depicts always look tormented and troubled; they appear as victimized silhouettes stemming from some dark, awkward
reveries. Belenyi Szabolcs literally paints people as he remembers them, and he always seems to remember them as ghosts.

NOAPTEA ALBA A GALERIILOR - NAG#5 // 10 IUNIE 2011 // BUCURESTI-CLUJ