After her art studies in Târgu Mures and Cluj, Magda Csutak emigrated from Romania to Austria in 1977; she lives and works in Vienna. Her studies in ceramics and her experiments with silicates led her to the use of special materials such as porcelain plates and graphite. In the centre of the composition More than one, made up of several objects, an abstract photogram, an increasingly fading pattern, is visible on five porcelain plates coated with photo-emulsion, which is formed through holes in a grid structure. On the porcelain plates, which resemble sheets or tablets bearing writing, the motifs, arranged in regular rows, evoke the image of signs and letters, but also recall matzah/azyme, a motif that can be traced back to the work with Miklós Erdély. Magda Csutak’s interest in the matter that makes up the universe has led her to experimental methods and abstract forms based on hidden relationships, physical and mathematical systems and models, reflecting the artist’s never-ending desire to learn and her intellectual ambition.
Krisztina Szipőcs