Butak András rajz (Stúdió Galéria, Budapest, 1983)
ANDRÁS BUTÁK has been living for some years in Hungary. He was born in Bucharest and graduated in 1974 at the Kolozsvár Academy of Fine Arts (Transylvania). Having finished his studies, after a short period of painting plain constructivistic pictures and having been mainly engaged in the scope of variability, he turned to natural forms, to the land itself. His landforming actions organized by other artists in the vicinity of Brassó and his land a rt-1 i !<e drawings derive not from an attitude of anxiety for nature but from an intimate connection to the nature. The artistic forms of these drawing a kind of objectiveness and eternal natural values as well, are especially remarkable, becuase in Hungary — except the land actions organized by the Pécsi Műhely, or except the sensible drawings of Adam Farkas and Imre Bukta — there are no precedence of works having common spiritual features with BUTAK’s art. The young artist is dealing with an almost scientific reinterpretation of natural forms or plant formations, the subjective representation of primer macro- and mikroforms of landscape or plant elements. It means some sort of imitation of natural evolution in the works of art. His forms are spreading over the sheet of paper along an axis symmetrically as plants grow. At the second half of the 4th decade of our century Ernő Kállai regarded the Hungarian non-figurative way of painting as a derivative of the rediscovered natural forms renealed by means of scientific researches and elecro-microscope. The works of BUTÁK were born by the aspect searching the „hidden face of nature” and are affirmed by the theory and practice of land art. His activity represents an original, new feature in the contemporary Hungarian art which is which is worthy of attention. LAJOS LÓSKA Translation: Szöllössy Ágnes.