Related Worlds focuses on a key period in the oeuvre of Ferenc
Lantos (1929 – 2014), when – his creative approach governed by the
intention of harmonizing artistic and social ambitions with nature – he
discovered the central motif for his visual language.
The motif of the circle
had already gained increasing importance in his representational paintings from
the late fifties, and by the mid-sixties, it had practically become the sole
compositional principle of his images, leading to the abstraction of his art,
rendered even more solid by geometric construction in the seventies. The
current exhibition offers a selection of works on paper and paintings from the
mid-sixties through the late seventies, which reveal the formally,
stylistically and structurally diverse and progressive character of the circle,
a principal element in Lantos’ motif-set.
