Untitled 2001

This untitled artwork by Tiberiy Szilvashi pulses with a deep, indigo blue, spread across eight separate panels. I can imagine the artist layering the paint, building up a textured surface almost like a topographical map of the painter's feelings. There are subtle variations in tone and tiny traces of reds and greens peeking through the dominant blue – like buried memories or hidden emotions. It’s as if Szilvashi is not just painting a color, but an atmosphere, a mood. The physicality of the medium is so present. You can almost feel the weight of the paint, the drag of the brush. I wonder if Szilvashi felt a kinship with other color field painters like Rothko, who also used color to evoke profound emotional states? The act of painting, in this instance, becomes a kind of meditation, a way of exploring the depths of inner space. And, like all good paintings, it invites us to join in that exploration.