To Infinity and Beyond by Gabriella Nagy
2017. Aug. 18. - 2017. Oct. 15.
Gabriella Nagy, a painter born in Debrecen, is interested in the thoughtful, mythical, visual connections inherent in nature, and she transforms the inner landscapes that evoke private stories into a sensual vision, a concentrated visual world. Her childhood experiences with her grandparents in the countryside and her adult travels have shaped her vision, which has led her to reinterpret the tradition of landscape painting.
In his early period, like the Romantics, he drew on his travel experiences and paid homage to Caspar David Friedrich, the greatest German Romantic painter, in his landscapes of extraordinary atmospheric phenomena. In his new paintings he depicts animals in situations that could never exist in reality.
These are not simple animal portraits, but creatures placed in strange situations, which in the stories we imagine play both a sublime and playful role, assuming human behaviours: elbowing, vomiting, tearing up.
Anthropomorphized animals are fallible and frail in their actions and gestures, but at the same time they are spiritual beings, highly elevated above their environment. The ironically depicted flying lambs, the rifle-twirling rabbits, the hypnotising bear and the crying deer seek the limits of the extension of reality in their parallel worlds.
So are the floating figures of people barely visible in the landscape, in whom we can ideally recognise ourselves, or at least the archetype of the soaring artist who literally escapes reality.
Yet the stories in the pictures are not dominated by pathos, they maintain a state of equilibrium between real events and fantasy, and the viewer becomes a participant in the stories.
Curator: Szoboszlai Lilla
Artist: Nagy Gabriella