Révész is refined exponent of computer art. An artist, performer and video maker, Révész does not, however, abandon the possibility of using painting by experimenting with it in a complex panorama of 'access levels' , which makes the viewer uncertain as to reality and fiction, inside and outside, on the belonging of the work's conceptual part to the retinal one, and vice versa.
From 2010 Révész is makes animated videos light or shadow plays, built on the movement of light, using analogue light stencils projected on various surfaces. The animation is following a storyteller's voice and story. From the storyteller's words very surrealistic, dreamlike situations are unfolding, like a villa where everybody falls in love at first sight, a man who turned into a giant after reading a comic strip and using the microwave owen, or the city where stress is pouring out of a machine. The mysterious, ambiguous atmosphere is also induced by the flickering lights, vanishing reflections, and the quickly changing figures shifting and fading away, things swirling into each other with dance-like movements. The narration is playing with the language, using the regular vocabulary of a genre (like film noir or soap opera) with a twist. During the past two years, the creator himself accompanied his cut out figures on the screen starring in various roles, adding one more layer to the stories.
For more information about László László Révész please visit:
www.revesz.info
You can listen the discussion what was recorded on the screening of Gap stories in MUSA, Vienna.
