Zoltan.Pictures

This peculiar photo album is the cross-section of 17 years of strenuous work and at the same time a spectacular broadcast of the clarification process of a consistent author’s visual perspective. The monochrome and color pictures that stare down on the spreads of the book have different connections to each other; discovering these connecting threads is as much of an intellectual adventure as the […]

The popular publications of Zoltán consist of a short quote, a few sentences and an original photo by him. The relationship between picture and text is just as interesting as the photograph itself. How do they overlap, how do they increase each other’s meaning, how will the sentence become more mysterious and powerful through the picture? The longer we’re looking at the album, the clearer it becomes that the pairings are […]

Zoltan’s art would be a great base to investigate the substance of visuality. When one looks at the pictures, one begins to suspect that their author is on good terms with the Lord. So many things congregate within the frames of his pictures and those things “click” so perfectly that one is bound to believe that the help of higher powers is behind it. Zoltán is not a “lucky fellow” who by chance always stumbles into places where the sunrise is […]

I always find the unusual, the peculiar, the improbable in Zoltán’s pictures, of course I don’t notice the peculiarity why the photo was taken but rather what is peculiar for me right there and then. This makes the book worthy of picking up now and again, as when the spectator-reader reaches the last picture, maybe the most emblematic photograph of the volume, he involuntarily starts over if not for anything else […]

The Landslides photos seek the heart of nature, Mankind’s original and worldly home, the mysterious and radiant core where we are all one. This series can be experienced as a sort of experiment in restoration. The pictures focus on one point and attempt to illustrate the formlessness that lurks behind form, the colourless within colour. Their arrangement in a series is the quiet, yet staggering story of this search. […]

Children are usually a rewarding topic to photograph. Thus, I believe an artist should avoid this subject in order to keep distance from hokum and easy success. However, these photographs are more adequate when a child is not only a cute girl or a funny boy on the picture but rather is a person coequal to their parents. In making this series I tried to use my camera only […]

The pictures of Zoltán Vancsó should not be written about, thought about, or associated with anything. These photographs are meditative objects. Let us not step into the pictures; we would only disturb their silence. Rather, let us allow their photographed quiet and calmness to affect us. After a while our tormented minds will become tranquil; we will realize […]

I love watching the pathetic cardigans, kerchiefs, ungainly house frocks, permed hair and mini skirts of Zoltán’s East-European pilgrims; their resolve to reach their destination. I see them as oppressed transcendental insect-collectors who are ready to walk any distance to at least have a tired glance at the painted likeness of an angel or the face of a wretched old priest. […]