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Edit Németh’s Exhibition @ Kempinski Gallery : March 10 – May 15, 2010
"It’s an interesting life: earning her degree in Győr’s Academy of Religious Studies, Németh also studied in Vienna, where the Hungarian painters of the 19th century preferred to study. It is also in Vienna that, when it comes to art, the city evokes Biedermeier and Jugendstil, as well as Klimt and Schiele.
The two Viennese masters are Németh’s idols too. But her work also conjures up the work of Hundertwasser and the Actionist Nitsch, whose art is often perceived in a negative light in Hungary.
Several names and many different styles, none of them surface in Németh’s work in a direct way.
Edit Németh, we read on her website, is an artist committed to creation, who has tried her talents in various artistic styles, yet her work seems homogeneous, due to her unending search of structure and defined colours. The website’s writer continues: “At issue in her art is how she can reach symbolic meanings, how reality is brought to life through her personal sensibility and way of seeing, while staying in the sphere of tangible senses, firmly grounded in the sensual”. |
What does this mean? It means that in the development of her art, while trying various styles, her work is defined by the interconnections of space, form and colour.
On display here is the
Paper Dragon series. It features constructive forms, and shows very markedly the above three-pronged unity. The dragon is a symbol. It appears in several peoples and countries’ fairy tales and myths, what’s more, it exists as a toy. Edit Németh’s constructive triangles give new shape to this toy. Her colours are testimony that they are indeed toys."
Gyöngyi Éri ,Art Historian