Sky Meditation  Vertical Silence

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World Financial Center  

 

35th Floor

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Chongqing China 

December, 2025

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The solo exhibition Sky Meditation by Attila Konnyu was produced the artist's working period inside the World Financial Center, on the 35th Floor in Chongqing - one of the city’s most emblematic contemporary architectural landmarks.

 

During the autumn months of 2025, Konnyu worked daily in his studio on the 35th floor of the World Financial Center. From this height, the city unfolded as a continuous vertical field: movement below, atmosphere above, and silence in between.

 

Exhibiting within a World Financial Center is rare. Painting there - day after day while the city moved beneath the windows - is almost unheard of.

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Painting as a Vertical State of Consciousness

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Attila Konnyu’s painting practice does not produce images, it generates perceptual states. His works operate outside the logic of representation and instead open a vertical field of experience in which attention gradually detaches from narrative and reorganizes itself toward meditative presence. The canvas functions not as a support but as a transitional space, a sensitive membrane between silence and energy.

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Verticality in Konnyu’s work is not a formal decision but an ontological proposition. The upward organizing compositions articulate experiences of weightlessness, ascent, and the suspension of time. Taoist philosophy is not referenced illustratively, but becomes perceptible through the internal proportional systems, chromatic layering, and rhythmic structure of the paintings themselves. Silence is not absence, but a productive force, from which color, gesture, and presence emerge.

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In this sense, Konnyu’s painting does not operate as personal self expression, but as a universal field of attention, where the distinction between artist and viewer gradually dissolves.

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