Based on the balance of visual forces animated by vague antropomorph elements, these "giants" are conceived in such amusement that they become harmless similarly to the healing powers of art, which are balanced by ancient agressions. By a surprising inovation of material and form and the use of a gentle, netlike technique, Erno C. Bartha activates the self-conscious eye of nowadays people. Turned into hay, the grass appears here as "grey ash" of the succession through time of many generations. Gifted with an authentic and profound creativity, the artist debates the implicite and explicite order of the real. We assist thus at a conceptual reorganisation of the artistic vision in the postmodern sense - to accept "Vision-Quest" as an axiom or an simbolic image of the individual and collective destiny.

These hay forms gain a symbolic, rational, circular and very ...... movement - all quite pertinent allusions to the circles of earthly time, disregarding many obviously passing manifestations of life which, in plastic sense, are mobile.

Erno C. Bartha's work is sincere, authentic, it is an original and firm expression of the holistic unity of the world, where man is only a segment of life. Feigning or ironising, the artist creates other connections as well: in the changing lights, these fabulous creatures would turn into couples, fights, powerful or primitive, overwhelmed by destiny or glorious within their overflowing vitality. Everithing is subordinated by a remarcable plastic and coherent discipline, which, beyound the originality of this conception, allow us to think that his warnings can reach their target.

This complete exhibition offers one more possible reception: brought out into space, natural environment or the city, the monumentality of this statues is even more pronounced by the contrast; their shapes propose not only a visible reality but a sensible one as well, which is quite typical for "land art" sculptures. The generosity of feminine features seem to subordinate the ambience now and the powerful vertical lines impose a vehement centralisation of space.

Dr Alexandra Rus.