Gábor A. Nagy

2012-01-07T15:47:00.000-08:00

My Piece Of Eden, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Like A Wasp In A Jar, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 80x110 cm

2011-09-06T16:36:00.000-07:00

You Are Afraid Of Us, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

A Waste Of Your Time, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

I`m Coming Home, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

A Million Dollar Answer, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Made A Wrong Move, Babe, At The Wrong Time, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

2011-09-06T16:17:00.000-07:00

Can you help me? 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Beautiful Boredom, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Blue In The Heart, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Ask The Next Person, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

2011-02-28T15:41:00.000-08:00

Far Below They Never Know, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Absurdity, come to me! 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

2011-01-12T13:41:00.000-08:00

Beauty In Mind, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Hardcore, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Endorphin, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

2010-12-08T09:01:00.000-08:00

Choose Life, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Only Happy When It`s Raining, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

2010-09-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

Martha, Maria Or Emmi, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

7/16/4297, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Something Invisible, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Start Voting, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Greetings From Iran, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Missionary, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Sergei Speransky, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 100x420 cm

2009-09-18T04:53:00.000-07:00

Who, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

2009-08-12T14:18:00.000-07:00

Supernatural, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x280 cm

Poor, Poor, Pitiful, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x280cm

It Works The Same, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Step Back, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

2009-07-17T16:26:00.000-07:00

Bare Minimum, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Long Pigs, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Notorious Groomer, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Healthy, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Flop Flop Bang Bang, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

Benefit, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 100x140 cm

2009-07-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

Letter Mosaic Painting
Gabor A. Nagy is fascinated by the depths of the human psyche, our subconscious, desires, dreams, anxieties and fears, as well as those happenings in the world out there whose effects linger in the subconscious. With his paintings he seeks to establish links between our most secret inner workings and the entirety of our lives. There are countless examples of such investigations in the history of art, literature or film, from Hieronymus Bosch to Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Salvador Dali to David Lynch, but the chaos and indeterminacy of Gabor A. Nagy’s approach has a distinctly 21st-century quality to it, what with the simultaneous presence of “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll,” childhood traumas, grown-up addictions, neuroses, politics, films, electronic music and the Internet. He is interested in creating an atmosphere in which the diverse elements turn into their own opposites: the certain becomes uncertain, the familiar unfamiliar, the light dark. In his works, where the personal is combined with the impersonal, and the singular with the general, everything is familiar but nothing is exactly recognizable.
Gabor A. Nagy`s recent paintings consist of three different layers. The first layer is made up of the vivid lines of hand-painted letters, which exist as a mosaic-structured image. The second layer is the sense of the letters as a coherent text. The third layer is the painterly context of the previous two layers. The image-layer is the surface of the painting where subjective experience and the momentums of the impersonal, outside world are dissolved in the emptying of portrayal and narration, as well as into the colorful kaleidoscope of small letters. Since it often takes great efforts to identify the details of the objects depicted, his paintings provide space for the creative imagination of the viewer, thereby involving him/her in the creative process. During this peculiar interaction, the image-world of the creator is complemented and completed by images from the viewer’s own memories. The text-layer as a decontextualized emblem or expressive fragment of content goes beyond the surface. The text-fragments are never directly connected to a particular figure within the image, but rather there is a more blurred and more associative relation between text and image. Sometimes, certain repeated words become keywords or the title of the painting helps in the recognition of individual connections. The painterly context layer is created by a hand paint process. This visual structure can generate solid forms on several levels of expression, from the most sophisticated to the most radical ones.

CV

2009-07-12T11:50:00.000-07:00

Gábor A. Nagy

Biography

1972 born in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary

2005 works and lives in Berlin, Germany

Studies

1993-98 Hungarian Academy Of Fine Arts, faculty of painting, Budapest

prof. Zoltán Tölg-Molnár

1998-2000 MA degree in the Hungarian Academy Of Fine Arts

prof. Zoltan Tölg-Molnár and guest prof. George Peck

1999 postgraduate studies in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg

prof. Diet Sayler

Individual Exhibitions

1999 Les Complementaires, Batofar, Paris (with Anna Szigethy)

2000 Baby Doll, Stúdió Gallery, Budapest

2001 Under Construction, Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Budapest (with Gyula Domián)

Lumiére Obscure, Hotel K und K Opera, Budapest

Opening, Gallery Illárium, Budapest

2002 Corso, Gallery Godot, Budapest

2004 MMS, Gallery Godot, Budapest

Compressed Painting, MATÁV Exhibiting Hall, Budapest

2008 Grammar Of Glamour, Gallery Godot, Budapest

2010 Sweet Lies, Kogart Gallery, Budapest

Selected Gruop Exhibitions

1997 Visiting, City Gallery, Pécs

Nachwuchs, Haus Ungarn, Berlin

Staircase-light-geometry-70’s-Budapest, Hungarian Academy Of Fine Arts, Budapest

1998 Nature And Art, Gallery Medium, Bratislava

Cartographers, Ernst Museum, Budapest

Space Formats 6., House Of The Budapest Gallery, Budapest

Mansard, Kunsthalle, Budapest

1999 MA Fine Arts Students In The London Institute, London Institute Gallery, London

2000 Crosstalk, Kunsthalle, Budapest

Dialogue, Kunsthalle, Budapest

2001 Rome Holliday, Accademia d’Ungherese, Rome

2002 Stilllife, Gallery Godot, Budapest

Ex-Röltex, Deák Palace, Budapest

Four Painters, Museum Ignác Tragor, Vác

2005 Click-a-Cliché, Galerie Reiner Tisch, Berlin

2007 Junge Kunst Aus Ungarn, Die Drostei, Pinneberg-Hamburg

2009 Neue Figuration, Collegium Hungaricum, Wien

Digital Agora, Olof Palme House, Budapest

Antal-Lusztig Collection, Pelikan Gallery, Székesfehérvár

2010 A Hard Rain`s Gonna Fall, BSA, Berlin

2011 Megapixel, Olof Palme House, Budapest

Awards, Scholarships

1999 Hermann Lipót Prize

Scolarship of the Marie de Paris in the Cite International des Arts

2000 Erasmus-Socrates Foundation, Nürnberg

2001 Scholarship of Hungarian Academy in Rome

2003 Scholarship of Budapest Gallery and Stadt Frankfurt am Main

2010 Scholarship of Gábor Kovács Art Foundation, Budapest

Selected Bibliography

János Sturcz: Két magyar-két japán, Új Müvészet 1996 August

János Sturcz: Látogatás, Jelenkor 1998 February

Dóra Maurer: Térképzetek, Balkon 1998 December

Lívia Páldi: Tetötér, Balkon 1998 December

Orsolya Merhán: Baby Doll, Exindex 2000 May

Gergely Nagy: Széthull és összeáll, Müértö 2000 May

József Készman: Under Construction, Balkon 2001 June-July

Erika Baglyas: Igen is, nem is, Balkon 2001 November

Ibolya Erdös: A pixeltréner, Impresszum 2004 May

Vera Szeszlér: A tömörített tigris, Médiamix 2004 August

Ibolya Erdös: „...nagy vízben kis hal...“ Balkon 2008 November-December

Contact

mobile: +49 176 206 237 14

e-mail: gabora.nagy@web.de

web: www.gaboranagy.blogspot.com

address: Torstr 102, 10119 Berlin