Many of the narrative elements in Balint Zsako’s paintings, drawings, and collages engage with themes of bodily functions, human relationship, sex, and death. His playful works have drawn parallels to the arcane visual language of renowned Canadian artist Marcel Dzama. Unlike the Winnipeg-born artist, however, Zsako’s works marry the visual traditions of Renaissance and Baroque paintings with the disparate concerns of contemporary art. Unified by a vascular system of flowering vines reminiscent of Botticelli, the figures in “Untitled” appear engaged in acts of gentle eroticism, their dismembered limbs evenly distributed throughout the composition by a keen consideration of complimentary line and colour relationships.
