Art Papers

«I paint the light that comes from all bodies,» a statement by Egon Schiele that is among the artistic inspirations that Kornel Zezula nourishes in his work. The portraits of this talented young artist born in 1991 in Wroclaw and graduated in fine arts from the Sorbonne University in Paris indeed radiate a sensuality that uniquely and intimately illuminates the faces and bodies that open up to the mystery of the other. Insatiable for an artistic culture that leads him to literature, cinema, painting and sculpture, Kornel Zezula is imbued with the richness of the nuances of being. Although painting is his language, it is because words will always fail to approach the elusive singularity of the depth of being. The other who is irremediably beyond our grasp, the artist suggests, between veil and unveiling, through an aesthetics that gives a glimpse of a part of that unfathomable and fleeting interiority. A play of transparencies that reveals the full density of the emotions that emerge on the skin of a face and the contours of a silhouette.