Colour paintings from the same series were exhibited in Budapest Gallery in 2006. The ten years elapsed since the exhibition have seen decreasing amounts of colour and increasing amounts of light in Molnár’s artistic career.

A student of Hungarian writer and philosopher Béla Hamvas, painter Molnár developed his life coaching and creative program called ‘painter’s yoga’ in the 1960s while he was entangled in the study of the philosophy of metaphysical traditionalism. According to this philosophy, in a final artistic stage, in the phase of ultimate self-emptying (kenosis) preceding death, ‘air paintings’ follow the different stages of earth, water, fire and crystal paintings. Spiritual emptiness, interpreted as saturated emptiness, does not in any way mean emptiness without any content: it refers to a state characterised both by artistic richness and by transcendent artistic experience. After painting colourful ‘empty’ pictures, this time the artist ventured to paint clear light, which posed a paradoxical task for the painter; such paintings, actually displaying miraculously colourful images, are showcased at this exhibition.

Molnár’s art of painting constitutes an outstanding achievement in Hungarian abstract painting and rightfully matches the life work of such artists as Tihamér Gyarmathy, Endre Hortobágyi, Tamás Lossonczy, Ferenc Martyn, László Molnár and Béla Veszelszky.

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