System of lines Paintwelts - understood as lines or system of lines -which cover the whole surface of most of my works somehow became my voice and my language. I create them by applying thick paint onto the canvas. These statuesque shapes rise from the plane of the canvas, bringing sheen, consistency and corporal properties of paint to the foreground. I am striving for simplicity and formal reduction in my works. A relationship between geometric abstract- and concrete art is apparent in my works from the year 2000 onwards. The use of geometric fundamentals and simple shapes show a connection to the strata of systemetic painting. Apart from creating autonomous pieces, I like to produce specific themes in series and/or pairs. Looking at a work from a distance. A vibrating optical effect becomes visible, which occurs from the shift of light on the top of the paintwelts and the shadows casted by the textured lines. All are arranged into a geometric configuration. Areas shaped by different groups of lines are changing to the fore- and background, generating a specific experience within the artwork. By changing the viewpoints, different visual components become prominent, so one can even experience an illusory drift. Looking at a work from close by. Although the lines are formed by paintwelts and can be considered a surface, each individual line is painted with a brush, which gives each line it's own character and momentum, thus becoming organic. Due to the role of the light and shadow effect, the texture is able to leave the flat world. The surface starts to levitate and one can experience two planes, which are both equal in strength and importance. These lines create physical features such as: weight, opposites, dark and light, absence and movement. Oneness, unity, relation between one and several, the issue of cardinality and compositional questions were raised while preparing pieces of the group titled, DESIRE FOR THE ONE in 2005. In the same year I finished the DICE series, which is a relief-like definition of the same theme. This way of perceivinging, divergence, experimenting with other techniques from time to time has refined my artistic expression with the paintwelt technique, which became characteristic and important. Unity and division, relationship of the whole and the segment is the subject matter of the following group of works called RAMIFICATIONS. Different shapes and fields are separated by the orientation of the parallel lines curving into different directions, without disturbing the lines. The HOMMAGE A' OCTAGON set is based on the above principle and major pieces were finished in 2007. I have made a set of several box paintings. These are built from wooden elements and components as part of another research into a different technique, considering structure, shape, measurements together with planar and spatial relationships On the L PROJEKT, I worked with two chiral symmetrical basic elements. In order to construct big sized multi-piece artworks, which are based on variable rythmical structures and playfulness, I applied the geometric process of working, such as:- mirror symmetry, rotation and shifting. The golden rule of joining the pieces is continuity: paralell lines flowing out from one element into the other. Sometimes lines travel around the entire work making a "circle" but not having the shape of a circle. Other works will show different geometrical shapes emerging through the system of lines. The artwork itself is able to expand beyond the traditional rectangular shape, resulting in exciting hollow or unsymmetrical compositions. Árpád Forgó