Exhibition 2018.08.17. - 2018.09.23.
Silent undercurrents

Ticket prices

800 HUF

István Nagy B. 85 – Memorial Exhibition

As an artist and a teacher of arts – having been the Head of the Department of Drawing and Visual Communication of the Eger-based (Hungary) Eszterházy Károly College –, Munkácsy Award winning painter István Nagy B. (1933–2006) used to be an outstanding figure of Hungarian fine arts. István Nagy B.’s life work can be arranged into typical cycles of paintings: the highlights of these cycles are constituted by some series of paintings from his late period, which exhibit his carefully elaborated ars poetica often overflowing with sublime intellectuality. Such works of his include his El Greco studies clothed in transcendental blue, the colourfully vibrant images of the small town of Zsámbék portraying diverse changes of mood, his Portrait Gallery depicting diverse ways of existence and being, as well as the Bible-induced and moralising Isaac images.

István Nagy B.: El Greco - monograph

The colours he applies, stretching far beyond the hues of natural reality, the monochrome harmony of such colours, the exceptionally meticulous design and production of his artworks originating from his work with textiles, his conscious search for stretched-out compositional solutions and the unique altar-piece like framing all equally contribute to setting these paintings off the world of realistic visual images. Artworks by István Nagy B. are suggestive impulses offering the beholders tactful and careful insights into miniscule spiritual changes and deep pains, which artistic initiatives are made complete by the artist’s delicate (self-)irony. Apart from functioning as self-interpretative acts, these works are in fact teachings embedded in the texture of the whole of mankind.

Event location

Vigadó Gallery - Exhibition Hall on the 6th Floor The exhibition space located on Pesti Vigadó’s 6th floor can be rented separately or jointly with the other exhibition spaces situated on the 5th and 6th floors. Read more about this location