Zsolt Dudás
Degree: MFA
University: Bath Spa University
Graduation Year: 2016
New Blood Art Commentary
Themes of Christianity have long pervaded the artist’s canvas, and Zsolt Dudás aims to bring to life the iconography as both markers of time and as a reflection of our continual search for meaning. The work is haunting - the gestural marks form twisted, distorted, bodies. The paintings act like visual translations of William Blake’s enigmatic, yet disquieting prose; “I still & shall to Eternity Embrace Christianity and Adore him who is the Express image of God but I have traveled thro Perils & Darkness not unlike a Champion. I have Conquered and shall still Go on Conquering.” The work similarly conveys the struggle to understand life, death, and the significance of it all.
Artist Statement
The use of archaic Christian iconography in the shadow of our present day’s existentialist questions is one of the central elements of my work. The religious, historical and cultural references not only act as a frame in my drawings and paintings, but also as a tool to ‘measure’ the different times, events to connect and organise them by analogy.
Group Exhibitions
(2018) Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize, Mall Gallery, London
(2018) Black Swan Arts Open, Black Swan, Frome