Peter Varga In Relief

Varga’s experience of fresco gives plaster a history within architecture. In these wall works, the material becomes a subject in its own right: thickness, contour and the traces of working establish the image.

Light describes the relief without fixing its appearance. As it moves across the surface, a ridge can become an edge and a hollow can recede, changing the relationship between the work and the wall.

The series allow different degrees of relief to be read together. The continuity lies in Varga’s treatment of the surface as something built, worked and encountered through changing light.