_{Zoltán Krizsán (1981) graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2005 as a painter. His talent was marked by monumentality, and his earliest works were created in the charm of figurativeness and tense chiaroscuro in sizes worthy of the Old Masters. It should be said to his honor and artistic validity that – although he has often been compared to him – he was not crushed by the shadow of Csernus and was able to cultivate a unique and self-identical, sovereignly inhabited painting. He works with traditional techniques (oil, charcoal on wood panel), but his painting practice has now transformed Baroque figurativeness into the depths of abstract expressionism. He belongs to those few representatives of his generation who were able to turn the abstract expressionist aspirations after Cy Twombly into new painterly directions and revitalize them from within. ^{(William Guba)}}