Welcome to the website presenting the art of painter and graphic artist Zsolt Boromisza. The site features all paintings that were in the artist's possession in May 2003, and five pieces from each of the twenty-four series of drawings that were also in his possession at the time.

THE ART OF RESURRECTIONS

Throughout his career, the ethos of starting everything all over again and the spirituality of the resurrected person straightening up after defeat have formed the life and art of Zsolt Boromisza. The term 'resurrection' carries a number of meanings for the artist. At a young age, two experiences that affected his life were the recovery from a near terminal illness and his father's miraculous return from a war camp in Siberia after World War II. Later, Boromisza participated in and survived the resurrection of a nation in 1956 (his experiences crystallized in the painting The cry of the cock among others), and experienced a spiritual resurrection when converting to the Catholic faith - a resurrection chronicled in the series of drawings titled Resurrection and Birds. Finally, the paintings and drawings depicting the Alföld (the Hungarian Lowlands), the region where Boromisza spent his childhood days, breathe new life into the artist's roots and the region's traditions through the unique modes of representation.

PAnother artist inspired by resurrection, the late Hungarian poet János Pilinszky (1921-1981), thanked Boromisza for the drawings he made to accompany Pilinszky's poems with the following lines.


János Pilinszky
THANKS

I do my work with a pencil just like a graphic artist.
A graphic artist also writes.
I am stunned to see my letters
in the language of lines.
I am stunned and also speechless.
What should I say about myself?
Still, the complete truth is that these lines,
touches of piano keys on the wall, strengthen in me
that very important,
perhaps the most important feeling and hope,
that we all, without exception, are one.


Thank you, Zsolt,

János

(transl. by Dávid Boromisza)