ÁGNES URAY-SZÉPFALVI: Magnificent Moments

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My doctoral exhibition presents the results of my research. My subject is sprezzatura — perhaps best translated as ‘nonchalant elegance’. It is the kind of effortless elegance that one works hard to achieve. Professional skills grounded in extensive practice. A quantity of repetition so great that the muscles grow to remember the momentum and the precision.

The exhibition consists of oil paintings based on small-size plein air watercolours. They are made at Lake Balaton. They capture the airiness of the moment, the movement of light and its colours. These are accompanied by figurative ‘notes,’ drawings. From merging the two, the oil painting is born.

My aim is to maintain the focused attention that I use when drawing after a live model.

“The ancients said that poetry is but painting without external forms, and painting is poetry endowed with external forms.”

— Kuo Shih

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Ágnes Uray-Szépfalvi

8th March, 2026

ÁGNES URAY-SZÉPFALVI: Magnificent Moments

Opening: 19th March, Thursday, 6 p.m.

Opening speech: Katalin Aknai, art historian

On view: 20th March - 30th April, 2026

Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday, 2-6 p.m.

Photo: Zsuzsi Simon