ZSOLT BERSZÁN: SUBSTRATUM

September 12 - November 4, 2017 Anaid Art Gallery Berlin

''The Thing" is an imagined sun, bright and black at the same time.''

   Julia Kristeva

 

"Substratum" is a surface or a material on or from which an organism lives, grows or obtains its nourishment. Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrate, as a surface on which something is deposited or inscribed. In this way the multiple layers of silicone or adhesive forms structures which remind us of the integrated circuits or human internal organs.  Large-scale canvas drawings arise from a multi-layered hatch, with dense accumulations of black amorphous forms trapped in motion. There is a feeling of fluidity almost imperceptible in his works. Organic forms arise from the accumulation of layers and substrates that send to the primordial boom in which the violence of separation has given birth to matter and existence.