Series of paintings, 2012–15
Acrylic on canvas, 180×160 cm
Seeing is a recurring subject matter in Czinege’s paintings. Perception is at the heart of the series of “Heads”, larger than life-size portraits sprayed on canvases. The anonymous, ‘blown-up’ portraits raise a paradox: approaching the painting takes the viewer only further from decoding it. The figures are of people found in the background of photographs, usually no bigger than the head of a pin, and digitalizing the image becomes a sort of a microscope for Czinege to explore and analyse them. Only by painting the figures do they turn into a recognizable form to Czinege himself.
