Bukta Norbert (Budapest, Aulich Galéria, 2010)

Mihály Bukta, My Father The essence and the deeper sense of Norbert Bukta’s painting is the helping and warning intention, the measure and expression of which derive from the quality of his spirituality. He made a deal, he made the alliance of beauty in these times, when “many foolish shepherds” had the unassessable as the one and only object of their interest and evaluation. They are able to explain or to create an ideology for anything anytime. Their arbitrariness spreads fear and in the atmosphere of that fear their power is growing. A painter must look around and contemplate. The object of his examination is the visible world, and the soul reflecting on the visible things of the world. That reflection, that quivering feeling, that expression hardly catchable in time or frequency can be made visible and worldly again by the painter — if his personal persistence makes him do so, and if his talent makes him capable of doing so. The artist’s personal quality is that narrow path, on which he has to proceed. He cannot identify himself with anything, but he cannot flatter either. While he has to let the whole world stream through his soul and his spirit, he has to project his very self to the public. That projected personal “ego” is the artist’s connection, the “alliance” with his fellow human beings. The strength of that projection and the intensity of the intention to keep that connection indicate the cast of mind which is then called expressionism. An artist, a painter can only be made capable of having an expressive way of creation only by his inclination and personality. Expressionism is not a party or an association which anybody can join if he agrees with the basic principles and rules. An expressive artist deals with the strangest and most shocking controversies of life: the good and evil present in a human being. That struggle may distort the face. People often notice that distortion only. Instead of sympathetic, helping intentions, they only see wickedly gesticulating knotty fists, and thus getting influenced by the misunderstood emotions and passion they start protesting against what they see. Yet, expression is not a set of bold feelings of irritation or anger. It is not the uncontrolled stream of gestures, either. Expression is an approach and a request at the same time; the artist suggests taking off our masks — because as we look at each other, we can see that we can be similar in many ways. Let us conclude that alliance again to make the “wand of beauty and agreement” whole again. The spiritual strength of Norbert Bukta’s painting and art does exist in the passionate-expressive dream of keeping and re-creating values. Jorge Luis Borges says: Keeping the world means continuous creation, and the words keep and create are considered eternal opposites on Earth, yet they are synonyms in Heaven.” Önarcképcsarnok, 1995, 168x207,9 cm Self-Portrait Gallery Lajos Sváby, painter A kiállítás megtekinthető 2010. augusztus 26-ig, munkanapokon 7.30-tól-1 8.30-ig. H-1054 Budapest, Aulich utca 5. aulichart@hamilton.hu BUKTA NORBERT NEKÜNK, MINDNYÁJATOKNAK KIK MEGHÍVOTTAK A KEGYELEMRE

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