István NYÁRI
painter, sculptor
- Internationally known
- In the press
- Solo exhibitions
- It is in a public collection
"The metaphysics of ordinary life, the philosophy of popular existence, if you like, the confusion of the taste system of the masses affects the ordinary viewer, sometimes randomly, sometimes directly causing confusion. At the same time, it provokes a pleasantly tingling or irritating effect even in a well-versed observer of art. I think the visceral resistance of cultivated minds while accepting the content of my pictures is very conceivable, since I introduce basic kitsch taboos and theses into my pictures, testing their patience, even though if they took the trouble, maybe they would forgive me and the objects, reconsider the outdated truth content of their ingrained philosophy." (source: Attila Sirbik: The greatness of doubt - Interview with István Nyári, New Art, April 8, 2016 [8])
ISTVÁN NYÁRI is a Munkácsy award-winning painter who graduated from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in advertising graphics in 1977, and has been working in visual arts since 1978. He lived in New York from 1985 to 1990, in addition to Budapest, he also works in Brussels between 2005 and 2007, and in London since 2007. He exhibited for the first time in 1976 at the Club of Young Artists, and most recently at the kArton Gallery in 2016. In addition to his solo exhibitions, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions at home, in the United States, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Spain and Switzerland, and his works can be found in several domestic public collections. His art has been continuously published since 1994 - in addition to recognized domestic experts, he has also been written about in Switzerland and Spain, and in 2013, one of the most popular online art magazines in the United States, Juxtapoz, published a lengthy article on him, illustrated with pictures. Summer sympathizes with the Lowbrow movement, but basically considers himself an outsider pop-surrealist.
Works from the artist's oeuvre
Solo exhibitions
2021
David Kovats Gallery, London[12]
2017
Beauty & Beast, NextArt Gallery, Budapest[13]
2016
kArton gallery, Budapest[14]
2013
Judit Virág Gallery, Budapest[15]
2008
White Gallery, Budapest
2007
White Gallery, Budapest
2006
White Gallery, Budapest
2004
MEO - Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest
2003
Galamba Gallery, Budapest
2001
XO Gallery, Budapest
1999
XO Gallery, Budapest
1996
Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
Group exhibitions
2015
Fresh - Straight from the studio, Műcsarnok[16]
2014
Kápolna Gallery, -Kecskemét-Hátárlények- Transformations of the human body, Night of Museums
2013
Deadly Nature - Modem, Debrecen
2011
Mexico Sinestro, Resistance Gallery London
2011
BP Portrait Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2011
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery London
2010
Most colorful summer, BUMBUM, Budapest
2009
Selected works of contemporaries and classics. BUMBUM, Budapest
2008
White Gallery, Budapest 2007 White Gallery, Budapest
2006
"Hommage to Sándor Márai", Home Gallery, Budapest
“One for All and All for One”, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005
“Playtime”, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Press releases
Origo: "There is no freedom, there is chicken ragu" - photorealism East and West (in Hungarian). https://www.origo.hu/
Juxtapoz Magazine – Paintings by Istvan Nyari (in British English). www.juxtapoz.com
Charmani, Agape: Art-Sheep Features: The Hyperrealistic Madness of Istvan Nyari (in American English). Art-Sheep July 13, 2021
List of the most expensive living and non-living Hungarian artists (in Hungarian). Librarius.hu, March 13, 2019.
Anica, Rudolf: The greatness of doubt - Interview with István Nyári (in Hungarian). ÚjMűvészet, April 8, 2016.
Straight from the studio | Hungarian Academy of Arts. www.mma.hu
Little Incubator of Horrors - Thoughts on the works of István Nyári (in Hungarian). Art magazine
Anica, Rudolf: The greatness of doubt - Interview with István Nyári (in Hungarian). ÚjMűvészet, April 8, 2016.
István Nyári (in English). Discogs.
"Kádár must go" - 40 years ago the Samizdat Bezélő started (in HU-HU language)
"I was an advertising graphic designer who thought in terms of total design" - #eighties (in American English). artportal.hu, February 7, 2018.
István Nyári: Hungarian Beauty | Artsy. www.artsy.net
Beauty & the Beast (in Hungarian). Cultura.hu, May 10, 2017.
Serk, A.: But what happened in István Nyári's studio before the 90s? (in Hungarian). Librarius.hu, February 28, 2016.
István Nyári's hyperimages (in HU-HU language). Fidelio.hu
Excite: Frissen :: Műcsarnok (in Hungarian). mucsarnok.hu
In public collection
Szombathely Art Gallery, Szombathely
Ignác Tragor Museum, Vác
István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár
István Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Art Collection, Dohany Street Synagogue, Budapest
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
