Tibor Csikós

Tibor Csikós, the obsessed circle-drawer, who keeps covering his layers, surfaces
with the symbol of entirety, security, eternity -at last a symbol that bears the same
meaning among all peoples- does not attempt at the impossible or some
achievement. The expanding spaces, rhythms, the forms turning into brushwork, the
intermediate negativ spaces excite him. When he applies more colours, when the
takes a step toward the monochrome, in real the results of an unfolding and
contracting pictorial reality interest him. When in an experimenting mood, he
renders our task more complex with ocassionally turning the surfaces plastic.
However, his art is not optical, nor of the pattern type. He is seeking the
intermediate states between the graphical symbol and the pictorial form, the
expanding space places the surfaces of the intersecting points more and more to
the foreground, let it be discovered from among the density of grapes in a bunch
or among the billions of planets and stars, bearing the colours of golden-brown or
ultramarine blue -this is the real medium of the pictures, the layers of Tibor Csikós.
Are we mislead, as among the media -like the sky from behind the foliage- entirety
hardly appears? I do not think so. This world made round by circles and spheres is
entirety in itself. Csikós Tibor own universe.
István Sinkó artist-art critic

"Process O 199"

1999
painting in oil on canvas
140 x 200 cm

Every artist furtively desires to establish a foundation, a permanent matrix in
which he can condense the world. Where thoughts, emotions find their places thus
the constant collision and congestation can cease.
A flutteing, liquid veil forms, a fowing prism. A homogene mandala is created out
of circles, floating spheres of which every single point is the centre. The
constant flux of souls, destinies. They keep alteing, they evolve and wither, then
merge in the process of rebirth.
József Gaál artist