ISTVAN NAYG

painter

photo: István Nayg

  • Internationally known
  • Award winner
  • In the press
  • Solo exhibitions

"The highest culture is tolerance of contradictions." —Francis Picabia

 

... Nagy is a member of the Hungarian Block group founded in Cologne in 1990, and we hardly find figurative work among his works. A large part of his art consists of pictures made with expressive gesture painting, while the other half is made up of picture-objects approaching minimalism. "It's a completely different world of form, but the spiritual kinship is there. Kondor was important from a moral point of view," he says. Perhaps his pictures can be approached to the world of Kondor to the extent that there is something cosmic and musical in his expressive gestural pictures. As a lexicon article about him puts it: "through the varied use of materials, his works seem like musical variations written for the death of the tableau". This means that he searches for new visuals by using unusual media, such as silk and velvet, by radically using materials that often repel each other, such as oil, graphite, beeswax, and sometimes by violating and cutting up the image surface. But all this within the framework of the tableau. "When a picture is created, it always contains our entire life up to that point, from which something comes to the surface," he explains. – KÉPES HÁZ Lajos Csordás

photo: István Nayg

Works from the artist's oeuvre

Solo exhibitions

2021
TERRES ET CIMAISES (Danielle Loiselel/Paris and Gaelle Guingant-Convert/Salies, fr.) Galerie le Génie de la Bastille, Paris, F

2020
POINT DE RECONTRE (with Danielle Loisel and Jean-Jacques Lapoire) Galerie le Génie de la Bastille, Paris, F

2018
JONCTION (Danielle Loiselel/Paris-Karl Menzennel/Berlin) Galerie le Géni de la Bastille, Paris/France, F

2016
CONTRASTE et CONVERGENCE (with Danielle Loiselle) Galerie le Génie de la Bastille, Paris/France, F

2015
CONTRAST Paksi Gallery, Paks, H

2005
EXHIBITION Ernst Museum Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, H

1998
BLACK RIVER Fészek Gallery, Budapest, H

1997
BROKEN PIECES Duna Gallery, Budapest, H

1993
DRY AIR Young Artists Club, Budapest, H

1989
HORDÁKOK Hungarian College of Fine Arts Barcsay Hall, Budapest, H 

Group exhibitions

2020
FREE PLAY II. National Salon of Fine Arts, Műcsarnok, Budapest IN.-FRA. Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance France, New Delhi/India

2018
LE VENT SOUFFLE Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris/France 2015 DER SCHEIN TRÜGT/ APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE Künstlerhaus, Vienna/Austria

2014
FRESH WINDS International Art Biennale, Garður/Iceland

2008
SWOP Budapest- Berlin, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin/Germany 2000 DIALOGUS Painting at the turn of the millennium, Műcsarnok, Budapest, H

1997
OIL/CANVAS Today's Hungarian Painting, Műcsarnok, Budapest, H

1994
FINE ARTS OF THE 80s Ernst Museum, Budapest, H

1991
ALLER ART Galerie 68elf, Cologne/Germany, D 

Press releases

2016
LÁSZLÓ HEMRIK: Transfers from Paks Exhibition of the Block Group and István Nayg New Art 2016 January

2012
LAJOS LÓSKA: Between Masks István Nayg's latest works. New Art 2012 XXIII. year No. 07-08

2011
ORSOLYA MOHAY: De Facto - István Nayg's exhibition New Art March 2011. XXII. Year 3 song

2011
TIBOR WEHNER: Emptying, empty concepts - about the art of István Nayg. Barka XIX. 3/2011

2010
KLÁRA HUDRA: The found Dissonance - Magyar Műhely art magazine. Forty-ninth year, number 154 – 2010/1 

2005
LAJOS LÓSKA: Mask in the mirror Works by István Nayg – New Art 2005 XVI. Grade number 8

2001
HEINZ WIDAUER: Untitled / Cím Nélkül - see István Nayg's solo catalog 2001 

2001
PROSEK ZOLTÁN: Cím Nélkül / Untitled – see István Nayg's independent catalog 2001 

1998
ZOLTÁN PROSEK: Exhibition of István Nayg /Fészek Gallery/ BALKON Contemporary Art Journal 98/4

1998
JÁNOS STURCZ: Not Pictures István Nayg Exhibition - New Art 1998 June. IX. year No. 6  

Prizes

2017
Hungarian Academy of Arts László Meggyes Award

2008
Mihály Munkácsy - award

2006
Two-month scholarship of the Budapest-Frankfurt inter-city exchange program, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2003
Two-month scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome, Rome/Italy

1996
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts One-Month Fellowship. USA  

1987
Herman Lipót award