Barbara Nagy
1976, Szentendre
Barbara Nagy's artistic interests focus on the nature of vision, visual perception, the power of light to create images, and the philosophical questions related to these issues.
She typically creates engraved, black-painted wooden panels. While her work aligns with the monochrome painting tradition, they are also deeply connected to the language of 20th-century non-figurative art movements. Barbara Nagy's ‘Light-Pictures’ do not represent, but, as she herself puts it: ‘realise’. The geometric and organic forms of her rhythmically structured compositions are made visible by the light that reflects off the three-dimensional surface of the pictures, as well as through time, which is inseparable from it.
Her works explore the paradoxical relationship between light and the colour black, addressing fundamental questions about painting itself. Her exploration also extends to elemental questions regarding the very essence of art and artwork: what transforms an object into a work of art, and when does a gesture become an expression of something else, something more? This aesthetic interest, which goes beyond the visual, sometimes leads her to experiment with a wide range of media, including installation, video, conceptual work, ink, charcoal, or pencil drawings.
Barbara Nagy is a member of the Open Structures Art Association, the Studio of Young Artists Association, the Vajda Lajos Studio Cultural Association, and the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists.
