Today, as accomplished a musician as he is a painter, he sees himself as being inspired amongst other things by experience, science, mythology, music and theology. His ambition is to integrate these elements into his paintings. His masters div the likes of Titian, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Rubens as well as modern giants like Picasso, Matisse, Bacon and Rothko. However, what Lisak desires the most is to remain a free agent, free to make use of the techniques he feels comfortable with and believes in, free to say no to the finality proper of modern “conceptual” work, but most of all free to own his own vision and voice, an increasingly difficult thing to do in our globalized and institutionalised 21st century world. He often reflects on questions that are so topical today – questions relating to religious issues, questions dealing with the individual, questions regarding the ambivalences between science and theology, or those concerning wars and conflicts of all natures – and he readily uses myth as a medium in his artistic expression. His paintings, are beautiful, their effects reminiscent of Caravaggio or Tintoretto. They are suffused with mystery and their brilliant compositions recall the masters of the XVI and XVII centuries… And yet both characters and themes are our contemporaries. This is, indeed, a strange combination of Beauty, of Reality past and present – our most prosaic present, of Horror, but also of Hope.