These small-sized watercolours are my first impressions of my stay at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. All of them were made in my studio during my erasmus program, and they picture the atmosphere and life in the atelier. Some of the paintings are more like a mesmeric, fictional image based on the place’s spirit.
2016
Little images
I came to you, because I love you
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
oil, canvas, bed and one of my grandmother’s drawing 190 x 65 x 95 cm
This work explores the parallel sides between life/maidenhood and death/womanhood as being a wife. The oil painting is my copy of my grandmother’s bridal present to my grandfather with the following text: ‘I came to you because I love you’. In Hungarian we use the same expression for the phrases ’came to you’ and ’marry to you’. Also there is a hyperrealistic bible and a rosary painted on the blanket which is used in funeral ceremonies.
’To whom got married after her twentieth year, they mocked: ’Old Maid’! I said I won’t be an ’Old Maid’ I will marry! Your grandfather came then I wed him. I didn’t even know him, we just meet at that time, still we lived sixty years together. […] I decided that I esteem the one who wed me. I can’t love someone who didn’t. Afterwards we lived together. We got used to and we came to love each other in the bed.’
(from a recording of Piroska Sándor, my grandmother)
2019
Tarot
(I just can't hide it.) oil and pencil on canvas 70 x 50 cm
(Super beginning.) oil and pencil on canvas 30 x 40 cm
(Behind the dust.) oil and pencil on canvas 30 x 24 cm
(It will change.) oil and pencil on canvas 27 x 27 cm
(Christmas lights.) oil and pencil on canvas 50 x 35 cm
(Champagne for children) oil and pencil on canvas 50 x 70 cm
(Caterpillar dreams.) oil and pencil on canvas 20 x 40 cm
(Captured territory.) oil and pencil on canvas 50 x 50 cm
(Cain.) oil and pencil on canvas 40 x 28 x 28 cm
(When I move, I hear.) oil and pencil on canvas 60 x 40 cm
(Good night...) oil and pencil on canvas 50 x 60 cm
(You move like a cat.) oil and pencil on canvas 70 x 60 cm
(Continue with the same bus.) oil and pencil on canvas 50 x 50 cm
(I'm a perv.) oil and pencil on canvas 22 x 38 cm
(Toys and magic.) oil and pencil on canvas 60 x 36 cm
(Soon.) oil and pencil on canvas 40 x 28 x 28 cm
(Naked and free together.) oil and pencil on canvas 60 x 45 cm
(Barbi the blacksmith.) oil and pencil on canvas 40 x 25 cm
(Bodies dissolve.) oil and pencil on canvas 40 x 30 cm
(Dive and emerge) oil and pencil on canvas 59 x 50 cm
(What to decide?) 60 x 40 cm oil and pencil on canvas
(Where you still have control.) oil an pencil on canvas 30 x 20 cm
In these series I create association chains based on the Tarot cards’ major arcana. I use trompe l’oeil technique to copy the cards, and to depict a plant (flower) and a ‘ready-made’ found object. I also use personal texts as the end of this chain. Concerned by the meaning of a card and its relation to my life made me start these series. When I am thinking about these meanings and emotions I unconsciously recognize objects in my life related to these issues.
2013
I hope everything will be as it used to be
I hope everything will be as it used to be oil, school bench 120 x 72 x 65 cm
I hope everything will be as it used to be oil, school bench 120 x 72 x 65 cm
I hope everything will be as it used to be oil, school bench 120 x 72 x 65 cm
I hope everything will be as it used to be oil, school bench 120 x 72 x 65 cm
During the summer of 2013 I was in a Hungarian art-camp with my school. The place we lived in was an abandoned school building located in a small village. I have found an exercise book and an old school bench on the loft. I decided to paint a hyperrealistic image of the exercise book on the bench with the following text: ’I hope everything will be as it used to be”. The whole piece is about memories you don’t want to remember, although you can not forget.
2012
Laid table
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
oil, canvas, wood, grandmother’s old clothes 204 x 36.5 x 50 cm
I discovered a lot of old clothes and household textiles in my grandmother’s wardrobe what she didn’t want to use. I sewed them together with some old canvases I found in our village, thus I created a long textile. I painted three plates on the long material, and a little glass for pálinka (a traditional fruit brandy in the Carpathian Basin). Each plate stands for a dish and the glass at the beginning stands for the ’first dish’ like an aperitif. This work is connected to a personal image of a traditional Hungarian eating habit.