Plein poids dans le rêve 1960

Endre Rozsda made this painting called Plein poids dans le rêve, meaning “Full weight in the dream”, and looking at all these marks, it’s like he’s catching something just out of reach. I love imagining Rozsda in front of this canvas, starting with a kind of blue, grey ground, and then he's just layering on top of it. You can see the material build up in places, as though he worked the painting, and it worked him right back! The yellow, ochre marks really stand out, like flares of light in a dense landscape. He's balancing the colors, creating a push and pull, a kind of dance across the surface. It reminds me of those artists who were trying to catch a feeling of a place, or a memory, and the painting becomes a map of that search. Rozsda is in conversation with so many painters here, it feels like an ongoing exchange, each one inspiring the next.