Our relationship to the material world is able to express our connection to life itself: what we desire and what our senses long for, can show our own deepest secrets. To feel desire for glass – for its sight, touch or peerless brightness – and to show the beauty of its material and substance mean the starting points of László Lukácsi’s art and his artistic attitude. In order to become something magical that can speak to its viewer, this chemical material simply called 'silicate' needs to go through a very long and difficult process. In Lukácsi’s art this metamorphosis means continuously renewing and reviving experiments that aim at the visualising of a refined sense of form, a simple and noble treating of material and of his pursuing perfect precision.
The colours and the play of light in his glass art can show harmony and dissonance at the same time: the elegance of cool blues and sea-greens, and of the geometric forms that bright silver lights create is melted by the warmth of a sudden gold shine and the inner parts that seem to be separated become united in the precisely worked out glass-objects. His glass-pieces speak about the essence of his ars poetica: everything is important and needs emphasis, there are no negligible parts in them. Graceful lines as well as the plasticity of forms or surfaces are equally worked out as their master knows, every detail is essential because they can represent the totality of his glass art. In this way his glass-works can discover almost all potentials of the material, which is the main intention of their creator. This intention is a kind of eidetic reduction that assumes a hypothetical field that shows the deepest point from where creation can start again and again in order to build up a special glass-world.
The fact that he gives priority to the material can make the play of transparency move, which is one of the main characteristic features of László Lukácsi’s glassworks. This transparency is reached by working and elaborating the inner parts and the surface of the glass at the highest level. As a result of this refined elaboration the meeting of glass and light can create a very exciting effect and reveal the very depth of the material to the viewer who is searching for secrets inside or on the surface of his glass sculptures. This effect provides the multiplicity of his works: from different points of view the eye is tricked since the viewer feels as if s/he sees various works of art although s/he knows the object is the same. Thus his glassworks can represent an entire world and can make the unbelievable believable.
Lukácsi's glass-objects are approaching the ultimate artistry of form and they present a continuous dialogue that is going on between material and the creator: his observing eyes and hands are questioning the glass about its wish and intentions; he does not force the material but he offers his hands to let it find its forms. This observing and caring attitude enables glass to show its best, that is to shine spontaneity in a geometrically structured world and to present regular and determined forms through organic and more harmonious pieces of work.
