Five out of four? Four out of
three? And one out of seven? Through her newest series IXEK 22
(2019-2020, “IXEK” is the plural of X in Hungarian), Dóra Maurer casts
the role of the question-solver to the visitor, and encourages thinking about
further possibilities by pointing out the expandable nature of the exhibited
series consisting of six works. Maurer exposes her inclination towards
mathematics and combinatory when she creates artworks according to a system
made up of primary colours, and builds new structures by reordering and
layering the red, blue and yellow fields. It requires the observation of
details and the intellectual cooperation of the viewer to track the alterations
of external and internal forms of these elements. To fully understand these
works, not only cognitive actions, but also optical processes have to take
place as the artist works with pigments, and the paint fulfils its function
through colour perception. However, colour perception is quite relative, and
the human eye is able to make visual recognitions only through comparisons and
juxtapositions.
