Attila Konnyu
The work explores surface, gesture, and spatial tension. Some paintings are reduced to minimal marks, while others develop through layered material processes. Across the series, the image emerges through the interaction of material rather than fixed composition.
Black Field Works
This body of work is developed using Chinese ink and acrylic on Xuan paper, where the surface acts as an active material rather than a passive support.
The absorbent and unstable nature of the paper allows each gesture to expand, resist, and partially dissolve, creating a tension between control and material response. Large dark fields emerge through layered application, within which minimal interventions appear as concentrated or barely perceptible events.
Across the series, variation is not driven by composition, but by shifts in intensity, distance, and disappearance. The work operates through reduction, where presence is not constructed, but sensed through the smallest possible means.
State of Presence No.: 1.0
Chinese ink and acrylic on Xuan paper 135 x 70 cm (53 x 27,5 in)
2026
State of Presence No.: 3.0
Chinese ink and acrylic on Xuan paper 135 x 70 cm (53 x 27,5 in)
2026
Material Tension
This series explores layered material processes on canvas, combining Chinese ink with acrylic to create dense, shifting surfaces.
Unlike the reduced works on paper, these paintings develop through accumulation, where gesture, texture, and chromatic interference generate unstable spatial conditions. The surface operates as a field of tension rather than a fixed composition.
Across the series, the work remains open and unresolved, allowing multiple visual forces to coexist without hierarchy.
Material Tension No.: 1.0
Chinese ink and acrylic on canvas 110 x 70 cm
(43 x 27,5 in)
2026
Material Tension No.: 5.0
Chinese ink and acrylic on canvas 110 x 70 cm
(43 x 27,5 in)
2026
Chromatic Eruptions
Chromatic Energy and Material Emergence
Konnyu’s recent paintings explore the encounter between silence and material force within expansive chromatic fields. Dense nuclei of pigment generate eruptive structures that radiate outward across the canvas, forming compositions organized around vertical axes of energy.
Rather than representing gesture, the works reveal the moment when movement, gravity, and matter converge to produce form. These paintings position abstraction as a field of dynamic equilibrium where chromatic intensity and contemplative stillness coexist.
Chromatic Eruptions No.: 1.0
Mixed media (acrylic and ink) on canvas 100 x 75 cm
(39.5 x 29.5 in)
2026
Vertical Silence
Axis, Space and Vertical Perception
Vertical Silence shifts the emphasis from horizontal expansion to vertical force. Here, verticality functions not as compositional motif but as perceptual axis.
Emerging from the spatial experience of the contemporary metropolis, the works articulate restrained intensity through scale and proportion. The vertical field becomes a site of contemplative tension, inviting prolonged engagement rather than immediate recognition.
Vertical Silence No.: 2.0
Acrylic on canvas 150 x 100 cm
(59 x 39 in)
2025
Equilibrium
Structural Balance and Chromatic Tension
Equilibrium marks a decisive phase in Attila Konnyu’s painterly development. The series investigates the dynamic balance of visual forces, where color, mass, and spatial distribution exist in a state of calibrated tension.
Rather than proposing stability, the works sustain a controlled instability that activates perception. Monumental scale reinforces this condition, positioning the canvas as an arena of formal negotiation. Equilibrium establishes a structural foundation upon which subsequent series evolve.
Super Power
Oil on canvas 91 x 168 cm
(36 x 66 in)
2019
Tachisme
Gesture. Material and Painterly Impulse
In Tachisme, gesture is not an uncontrolled impulse but a disciplined structural element. Mark and surface operate within a carefully orchestrated compositional logic.
Layering and chromatic interaction generate rhythm without surrendering to excess. The works retain the immediacy of painterly movement while remaining anchored in formal restraint. Tachisme extends the formal concerns of Equilibrium into a more visibly kinetic register.
Evolution
Oil on canvas 142 x 213 cm
(56 x 84 in)
2014
The Black
Reduction, Density and Spatial Silence
In The Black, reduction becomes a structural strategy. Black operates not merely as absence but as spatial architecture. Through disciplined limitation, the works heighten sensitivity to surface, density, and proportion.
The series occupies a threshold between minimal rigor and expressive resonance, refining the painterly language to its essential elements.
Outer Space No.: 5.0
Oil on canvas 61 x 45.5 cm
(24 x 18 in)
2024
Observers
Perception and the Presence of the Viewer
The Observers reflects upon the act of viewing itself. Rather than depicting figures, the series translates observation into structural relation.
Compositional axes and spatial tensions implicate the viewer within the visual field. The gaze becomes reciprocal; the work does not simply present itself but establishes a condition of mutual presence.
Primary Observers No.: 20.0
Acrylic on canvas 100 x 70 cm
(39.5 x 27.5 in)
2024
Hybrid Works / Expanded Practice
Painting Beyond the Canvas
Beyond painting, Konnyu's work extends into sculpture, digital media, and performance, expanding the structural language of his abstraction across multiple forms.
The hybrid and expanded works extend the painterly investigation into spatial, digital, and performative domains. These projects are not departures from painting but alternative articulations of the same structural inquiry. Image becomes environment, and composition unfolds as spatial condition.
The expansion across media demonstrates the adaptability and coherence of Konnyu’s visual language within multiple material contexts.
Excitement
Bronze
2011
Ancient Power No.: 9.0
Digital Work
2019
Multidisciplinary Productions
Konnyu's performative and cinematic works translate the structural principles of his painting into choreographed environments where image, movement, and projected media interact.
Several productions explore speculative narratives reflecting on the relationship between human perception and technological transformation.
