Untitled 1941

This untitled painting was made by Gunther Gerzso, at an unknown time, with an unknown medium, although it looks like oils. Imagine him, standing at the easel, wrestling with this scene. The figure, veiled in white, emerges slowly. You can see how the painting came into being through intuition. The colours are muted, the palette restrained, the texture layered in a way that suggests a dreamlike quality, like it's both there and not there. I wonder what Gerzso was thinking when he made this? The veiled figure is so enigmatic, so present, and yet completely hidden from us. Is it a ghost? An angel? A memory? It reminds me of the way artists like Hilma af Klint tried to capture the invisible forces that surround us. The way the figure rises out of the landscape suggests that we are always in conversation with each other. Painting, like any art form, allows for ambiguity and uncertainty, letting us exchange ideas and meanings over time.