Purchased, 2001
Keywords
El Kazovsky was one of the leading figures in Hungarian contemporary painting, who worked in the field of painting, installation, performance and set design. Her art draws on personal mythology, a network of symbols and a system of iconography, a mythical universe, which can be understood as a subjective mosaic in a distinctively theatrical, unsettling world of colour. Each work is related to the other through recurring figures, motifs and animals, usually the dog-like wandering animal, which acts as a mediator, an initiator in the relationship between the work and the viewer, and also proves to be El Kazovsky’s alter ego. There is a sense of fragmentation, existential uncertainty and division in the structure of her images.