"Earth, water, air, horizon, zenith. Tamás Kopasz gets in tune with the universe, grabs it by the scruff of the neck and pulls it onto the canvas. His brush dances to Handel. He writes the melody again and again. The rhythm leaps, the paint splashes, it stings here, it flows softly there. His heart is tender, but his arm is strong. The baroque polyphonic is calculated, proportioned and counterpointed with a scattering and assembling of notes. The performance is emotional, improvisatory. The baroque soothes and stirs, calms and inspires action, sheds light and plunges you into a dark pit.
Tamás Kopasz counterpoints, adding decorative splashes of colour to the canvas. Waits. The paintbrushes run wildly, always from the top down: "the horizon is Zenith with me", he says. "I have to fight an even fiercer savage and I don't know yet if I can beat him." With his brush he destroys all decorativeness.
Is it possible to play pogo to baroque music? Yes, it is."
Rockenbauer Zoltán
Tamás Kopasz' Painting Universe
"...everything is matter - everything is spirit; the focus is either on matter or on substance; structure or function, atoms or patterns, waves or particles. "
Arthur Koestler: The Sleepwalkers First published by Hutchinson 1959
Terra, Aqua, Aeris. Earth, Water, Atmosphere.
Terra Incognita on the white canvas. Terra Nova is the discovery, the New Earth.
The image born of the unknown.
Paint, brush, canvas, music The great hadron collider by Tamás Kopasz.
Music is energy and paint bosons fly.
Elemental, tandorian Element-entary/Elemen-teris, Element-ecstasy.
Handel, Bach and performative, pre-meditative metal.
Painting, drawing, spatialisation.
The Universe stretched into a plane.
Night, dark, light-fissure.
Unknown, infernal, angelic, ethereal. Lovable, wild, passionate.
Light, light, light and always the light comes.
Day, cloud colors, silence-cleft.
Thickness, intensity, glow, rage. Silence, peace. Music of the spheres.
Paint Universe.
Paint is the substance that makes up the universe.
Blacks, whites, many blacks. Blues, yellows, greens, reds, ochres. Raspberries, turquoises, rose petal colours.
Earth colors, Moon colors, Water colors, Air-pure colors.
Paint clumps, paint rivers, zen-like color fields. Frozen gestures. Action, meditation, action. Silence.
Music, music, music, just music.
Unbridled ecstasy, concentration, mindlessness. Harmony, balance, order. The wonder of the cosmos. The influence of painting on the universe.
The ecstasy of painting. The possibility of happiness.
László Hegyeshalmi
