MÁRTA KUCSORA
Known for her grandiose canvases, Kucsora’s video installations seek to expand the traditional tools of painting, breaking the constraints of the medium. The artist’s experiment in combining moving image and sound provides an alternative to the aesthetic experience of the painterly processes that are differentiated but unrepeatable in terms of compositional formulation, which Kucsora also seeks to explore through more effective means of expression for contemporary visual thinking. The starting point of her video installations is the same expendables (different paints, compounds and desiccants that influence their amalgamation) that she utilizes in her paintings. The essential difference, however, is that while in her canvases it is a solidified, finished structure that bears the moving act of the picture’s genesis, the organic processes revealed by her video works are a memorial to the momentary nature of an ephemeral structure and the gradual rearrangement of the elements that make up the picture. They reveal the disorganized sequentiality of invisible forces, which happens to be the genesis of patterns, the topology of the growth and disappearance of materials of different densities. In other words, the interdependence of the regressive and progressive movements of the vortices of color that crumple into the navel of the world. A similar bipolar, dialectical idea prevails in the so-called “chiastic” patterns known from both literature and biology. “Chiastic structures” refer to transversely dialogical concepts that enter into a symmetrical equilibrium with each other to create the supposedly final appearance of an organism, a literary work or even a painted form.
BEAUTIFUL ERROR
2022
3:52
Single-channel video installation with sound 18:37 minutes
This video was made of unaltered, real-time footage of experimental moving paint.
Videography: Colin Welch, Lukacs Marton
Post-production: Lukacs Marton
Sound design: Colin Welch
© Marta Kucsora 2022
