Deenesh Ghyczy and his fragmented art

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Deenesh Ghyczy is a German-Hungarian artist currently located in Berlin that has the peculiarity of painting portraits in fragmented form.

With that technique he gives a constant state of movement to his work, but never making the subject impossible to see, leaving the most intimate or brief segment still visible, standing on the verge of abstraction and repeated more than once.
Nothing digital lies in his art, the only medium used is traditional oil paint. The series is called 'Soul Out' and the main portrays touch a moment of mundane life where reality loses any stability, and the subjects are shown in a state of contemplation or sometimes suspended on air.
What is always present in his paintings is the rocking between objective perceptions and our imagination that keep trying to re-elaborate the real sensations in our subconscious. The principal theme can be anything from freedom to beauty, and all of the people represented have a special relationship with the artist.
The aim of Ghyczy is to demonstrate how we have stopped having a main core of identity and how many people have different identities and personalities.
As author Uwe Goldenstein says: "The painterly medium is uniquely suited to establishing a state of serenity, standstill, and contemplation.

Deenesh Ghyczy leads us into a world where habitual principals of thought and argument become meaningless.

His figures stand beyond the cause-and-effect of everyday life; some are shown levitating, others in a state of complete inwardness. Streams of consciousness appear to be channeled and frozen in the recurrent motif of fragmented, disintegrating figures."