Confrontation - Exhibition of artist István Nayg

Ist­ván Nayg is a stri­king fi­gu­re among Hun­ga­ri­an mid-ge­ne­ra­ti­on con­tem­por­ary ar­tists. With both his own works and as a mem­ber of the Block Group, he has taken part in nu­me­rous ex­hi­bit­ions at home and ab­road. His art­work draws upon both the rich tra­di­tions of paint­ing and anti-paint­ing’s ges­tu­res dis­mant­ling the no­ti­on of the tra­di­ti­o­nal panel paint­ing. His cre­a­tive met­hods are cha­rac­te­ri­sed by a con­cent­ra­ted mode of exp­r­es­si­on and a di­ver­si­fi­ed use of ma­te­ri­als. The aut­hor, mak­ing a rare solo ap­pe­arance, is put­ting his ne­west works on view at the Ernst Mus­e­um’s Do­rottya Gal­lery. Along­si­de his large-scale panel pic­tu­res, paint­ings of mixed media, paint­ing-ob­jects and image-ob­jects, a me­di­um new for him also ap­pe­ars in this show: the photo-print. Des­pi­te the ap­pa­rent dis­si­mil­ari­ti­es in the va­ri­o­us ma­te­ri­als and tech­ni­ques emp­loyed in the ex­hi­bi­ted works, they rep­re­sent a co­he­rent sub­ject, at whose cent­re lie the is­sues of the mir­ror, the mir­ror-image, the head-on view and conf­ront­ati­on.

The ex­hi­bit­ion is ope­ned by art his­to­ri­an Lajos Lóska.

The ex­hi­bit­ion is re­a­li­sed with the kind sup­port of the Com­mit­tee for Cul­tu­re, Human Rights and Mi­no­ri­ti­es, of the Inner City-Leo­pold­stadt Mu­ni­ci­pal Govern­ment.
2005. April 26. - May 21.

Gallery Dorottya

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