Gábor Kentelki

Lives and works in Târgu Mureș, Romania

Artist statement

"Why do I paint? I’ll probably never know. In the past, I thought I loved painting and could do anything else alongside it. As time passes and I spend more and more hours in the studio, I realize I cannot do anything else. I don’t call it 'love' anymore, it is simply who I have become." My work lies where abstract expressionism meets the natural landscape. I paint in search of harmony, force, and beauty, but it feels increasingly distant in the modern world. It can often found only in an imaginary land or a dream. I work with traditional materials, oil paint on canvas, as a deliberate commitment to the timeless aesthetic values within a contemporary context. My practice is driven by intuition and the subconscious. I enter the studio allowing spontaneity, raw instinct, and the physical act of painting to shape the initial composition. It’s a game: while immersing myself in the rhythm of the studio, I create a chaotic foundation from which structure and controlled detail gradually emerge. Nature remains my central source of inspiration—not as a subject to replicate, but as an emblem of timeless harmony, beauty and energy. I translate its underlying principles into gestural abstract forms. I am drawn to abstraction because nothing is constant: as the viewer changes, the painting changes with it. Every piece I create represents an intense process of iteration and continuous experimentation. I often pursue a single visual idea, texture, or chromatic palette for months or years,...

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