Tamás F. Farkas (Budapest, 1989)

The Paintings of Tamás F. Farkas, Flermann Room, "Fészek"Artists' Club Tamás F. Farkas creates the visual effect, generally referred to in experimental psycho­logy as the Thiéry-diagram, by means of stereoscopic configurations which are logical in parts but form an irrational system of relations when viewed as a whole. After some sec­onds, apparrently positive forms transform into negative ones before the eyes, with the figures placed at different planes merging into one another, and spiral curves recurring to themselves. The “creator", no matter if in Ancient Rome or in the Flungary of the 1980s, or if working with mosaic stones orwith a video-camera, can successfully encou­rage the taste of his audience for this irrational and and imaginary order of forms if he has the right talent to combine human imagination that overcomes the limitations of geometry and the law of gravity, with a stereoscopic configuration that suggests the or­dination power of rationality and yet offers unlimited freedom. Tamás F. Farkas, who graduated from the School of Applied Arts in 1980, does have the determination and gift to make people enter his world of Strange Configurations and New Dimensional Forms. The Flermann Room exhibition presented his paintings from the past few years, with the works being an organic addition to the questions set up by the artist in his earli­er pictures, butát the same time they represent a shift in the direction of the postmodern efforts of the 1980s. "Postgeometry” - this was the title of an exhibition organized at "Fészek” Gallery some years ago, where F. Farkas also exposed some of his works; and these paintings truly reflect a special state superseding modernism, and suggesting that the ways of expression and form analysis of the artist, referring back to faraway strata of art history too, would find adequate forms of expression also in the spheres of compu­ter-graphics and video. Ernő P. Szabó

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