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Portrayal of human fallibility
Although at first glance, the raw and unpolished visual world of Gábor Király may strike us as unsettling, his paintings tell warm, intimate and personal stories of human nature. Such duality of rough and fragile is characteristic of Király’s work: centring his compositions around anthropomorphic and animal-like characters, often grotesque and unnerving in appearance, the artist exposes their candid vulnerability and sensitivity with compassion.
Keenly experimenting with unconventional materials, Király is no stranger to painting on rough pieces of wood, fragments of furniture or cast-off sheets of wine filtering paper. An intuitive and organic artist, the painter refuses to overanalyse concepts and trusts fleeting ideas, emotions or impulses to guide him when working, resulting in intimate and self-reflective visual narratives.
Hungary’s most colourful artist
‘If I could put the message of my art into words then I wouldn’t be painting. I’d just say it — but I can’t, because I don’t think it’s possible to express my artistic purpose with words.’ – Bazil Duliskovich
Bazil has experimented with video art, collage and sculpture, but his principal means of expression is painting, a medium through which he challenges the Soviet art education he encountered growing up on the Ukrainian side of the border with Hungary. Another source of Bazil’s defiance is the ill-defined and stereotyping labels often applied to his work. Characterisations such as ‘Eastern European’, ‘Slavic’ or ‘post-Soviet art’ are a sourc of frustration to the artist, who grew up speaking multiple languages in a region endowed with numerous cultures and identities.
Reuniting with an old friend
Istvan Nyari was the first artist I ever represented.
His extraordinary modesty vis-à-vis painting and his astonishing capacity for work have been a great source of inspiration for me since the very beginning. He is an old friend I admire as an artist, and from whom I learned so much about painting. He considers himself a pop-surrealist artist, and I think he has one of the most exciting perspectives among the creators I have ever met.
His paintings take months to produce owing to their practically exaggerated precision. Both of us are movie enthusiasts, and it provides a good analogy – to observe the paintings of Istvan is like watching a great movie. You step into an other world, into his world, where everything is familiar, yet it feels different. Only a few artists are capable of taking the audience for such a journey.
Meet our artists
Art is eternal. But what about artworks?
Pista Horror is immersed in an intriguing concept: painting on tiles. He wants to move works out from the ordinary white cube milieu and showcase them in more unconventional settings. On surfaces, where they can be permanent – where one cannot simply take them off the wall just to be swapped for something else.
