Zsolt Varga Zoltán: Blessed state IV.
(2024, Handshake Europe Sculpture Park)
From the beginning of 2000 the abstract forms become more figural. The theme does not change. The wooden, sensitively shaped, stylized figures are continuously approaching the two dimensions. By the end of the decade they become flat plastic pieces of art resembling plate coverings which speak the sculptural language of the mature artist with their concave and convex shapes, fine curves and clean cut silhouettes.
Around the end of the decade the lines became even simpler, the edges became even harder, the forms were more rectangular. Incisions, openings breaking through the forms and punctures appear in the flat plastic pieces of art shaped like foldings (Pregnancy, Man and Woman IV, Torso, Secret Staircase). In order to show spatiality he does not need to carve the real spatial extension of the body. Composed for the light and shadow effect, the bends and curves of the bent-like forms accurately define space.
The male-female couples and the pregnant female figures are almost all without a head. This state of facelessness and headlessness is important from many aspects. The face carries the personality and uniqueness. However, Zoltán Zsolt Varga’s sculptures represent the plastic tradition that aims to step over the unique towards the figurative.
