24x32 cm
watercolour and ink on paper
In the Várfok Gallery
Every human being has in common the uncertain certainty that he/she comes from somewhere, but that, after a certain point, his/her past can no longer be linked to faces and memories. Rather, life is condensed into an endless chain, a timeless mass. Rozsda's painting The ‘Origin’, presents in the complete and infinite form of a sphere, the concentrated fog that is a characteristic of the distant past. The planet-like [celestial] body floats in the void and is confronted with its ancestor: the moment when neither animal nor human, old nor young, woman nor man, can be separated. A single figure, struggling for an independent body, faces a torso, a half-animal, rooted vegetation, fading out of the bluish cavalcade. At the moment of creation, an inevitable future awaits. In the heart there is the triumvirate of Birth, Life and Death, a cycle within a cycle, mobilis in mobili. With his creation, Rozsda himself becomes a creator. Through the pale, translucent, malleable bluish hue of the watercolour, water as the primordial elemental theme of the spirit of creation. The unfolding surface displays the power of the primordial explosion in a mysterious transformation, just as water itself, as a flowing, translucent element, represents both formlessness and the source of life.
24x32 cm
watercolour and ink on paper
In the Várfok Gallery