Kristína Mésároš The Beginning

Slovak painter Mgr. Kristína Mésároš, ArtD. (1981) lives and works in Scharndorf, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, as a scholarship holder at Lasalle College of Arts in Singapore, completed her PhD studies at the Department of Graphic Arts and Other Media in the studio of prof. Vojtech Kolenčík. She is a laureate of the Martin Benka Prize 2023, a finalist of the Strabag Artaward International in 2009 and a finalist of the VUB Foundation Painting of the Year Award in 2013 and 2015. She has participated in several international residencies, group exhibitions and regularly exhibits individually at home and abroad.

In the artist’s paintings, existential experience is revealed in the transformations of the figure and landscape. Personal experiences, fleeting situations, the perception of landscape transformations, but also the surfacing of ancient memories are connected through painting with the abstraction of feelings, moods and the search for a deeper meaning.

In the large-scale exhibition Origin / Beginning, the painter Kristína Mésároš presents her work through thematic and motivic series, in which she creates environments, landscapes and situations connected with her own experience of everyday events.

However, personal experiences, fleeting situations, perceptions of landscape transformations, as well as the surfacing of ancient memories, are connected through painting with the abstraction of feelings, moods and the search for a deeper meaning beyond the foam of days. For example, the leap into the water, associated with the sudden change of the elements, is thought of and represented in the act of painting not only as an elegant physical movement, but also as a transformative experience, a beginning. In the elementary gestures, in the figure’s transformations, configurations and confrontations with the environment, an existential experience of the individual is reflected that has a more general validity. The climbing wall is not only a trainer of physical movement, but also represents a symbolic challenge to overcome obstacles in pursuit of a set goal; similarly, the figure trying to re-erect the sail on the boat is an allegory of the effort not to give up despite failures and not to succumb to adversity.

The motifs of variations of navigation and navigation are in turn related to life’s hope and orientation. And the grid of mosaics, the exterior lining of the walls of the house, is the essence of the artist’s childhood memories. It represents certainty, order, a stable arrangement of shapes, a remembered sense of home and an unchanging place of return in a changing world. Its variations and fragmentation visualize the disintegration of the whole picture and the gradual disappearance of memories over time. The artist’s atmospheric and imaginative landscape paintings are also metaphorical and linked to the formation of home and the search for identity.

Kristýna Mésárošová’s paintings are shaped by a cyclical movement between moments of concentration, tension, performance, and inhalation, followed by relaxation, daydreaming and meditation.

They express life’s quest to fill existence with meaning and joy.

Peter Megyeshi

Location: Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia

Date: from  29.11.2024 – 02.02.2025

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday
from 10:00 – 18:00

Admission:

Adults – €10
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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