Denesh Ghyczy

All of my paintings can be divided into separate but interconnected series. One of my current projects is the series called Into the Void. Reminiscent of Yves Klein’s infamous leap, Into the Void deals with figures jumping or falling into an undefined painterly space, an unknown territory, physically or mentally. The abstract background that is often composed with loose paint strokes, interacts with the figures which are more solid and naturalistic, through painterly overlap, somewhat carrying or holding them. It is this in-between state of the solitary decision to dare and jump until the arrival into the unknown that interests me — the essential courage for change, for letting go, dispersing and disappearing even, and having faith in oneself, stretched into eternity.