Emese Kazár’s annual edition consists of five original pieces, sections of a large oil painting depicting a female figure that the artist separated into distinct individual images afterwards. Each work represents Kazár’s characteristic dark palette with non-transparent paint layers. Two of the canvases make a clear reference to their original motif, displaying a head or a hand. Others, because of their isolation, completely dissolve the underlying figure into abstraction. One can hardly detect that the blue shadow at the top of one painting excerpt depicts the female breast, that a dark bulge constitutes the navel, or in another, the female crotch. To that end, the original works from Magdalena explore possibilities for depicting the human body and at the same time stage an interplay between abstraction and figuration.
Annual edition 2016
1–
Magdalena 1, 2016
Oil on canvas
41 x 30 cm
Unique work; sign., dat.
2–
Magdalena 2, 2016
Oil on canvas
33 x 47 cm
Unique work; sign., dat.
3–
Magdalena 3, 2016
Oil on canvas
52 x 34 cm
Unique work; sign., dat.
4–
Magdalena 4, 2016
Oil on canvas
37 x 27 cm
Unique work; sign., dat.
5–
Magdalena 5, 2016
Oil on canvas
50 x 30 cm
Unique work; sign., dat.
each Euro 1.071,-
incl. 19% VAT