The artist József Gábriel has lived in the USA for over a decade now. However, he regularly visits the town of his birth Zalaegerszeg where he often meets artists of the local art scene. József Gábriel is sixty years old this year. His pictures are imbued with wisdom; this is what gives them a special dimension. Finding ourselves in the whirlpool of associations, we feel even more the presence of wisdom when we are looking at the pictures. He knows the catches of human life, our desires hat we see in his pictures as if in a mirror, make us recognise ourselves. He has a special sense to turn the individual into collective. He knows exactly that it is not the visible, not the surface that is important.

What really matters is so invisible, so self-evident. A tiny gesture, a smile, a head tilted with importance, a surprising object may say a lot more or may mean a lot more than any pictorial dynamism. The mysticism of fine irrationality is more than the pragmatism of rationality. Familiar moments of weekdays are more that grand parables or passion. All this, with six years behind him as an artist, József Gábriel managed to put the way in allegories that we do not feel towards them for even a second as if they were preaching. We get to their core by ourselves, subjectively, on the path that he, the painter designated for us. Then, he steps aside, discreetly so that the viewer feels his or her own work of getting there. And then, when they realize it all may we understand the real essence of Gábriel's art.