Tamás Konok Ludium Pigmentum

Tamás Konok

Born in Budapest in 1930, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1953, where his teacher was Aurél Bernáth. Originally he studied music, but after a few years he decided to study fine arts and since then he has devoted his life to it as a painter with all his strength and talent. In 1959 he moved to Paris and from the 1990s he  has lived and worked in Budapest and Paris.

"The link between the two arts, painting and music can still be felt today, especially in the sense that the artist attempts to make a system of painting based on the vocal and instrumental system established in musical practice the basis of his painting. In addition to the musical order he also incorporates scenic movements into his art, which further condense and enrich the intersecting networks of lines: and all this despite the fact that Konok left all material constraints behind him years ago. Important conclusions can be drawn from this complex mode of communication, which points to the theory and intentions of the artist's creative method. For him, the concept of 'matter' must be understood as the 'organic' nature of the basic spaces that become the living vehicles of the shapes that grow out of them: the formulas through which the human and the artist convey Konok's feelings and thoughts."

Lucia Moholy