Meditation Painting

Marcell Nagy (b. 1994) Hungarian artist born in Debrecen, Hungary, living and working in Budapest. * My primary practice is spontaneity, giving freedom to gestures and to endless reinventing repainting of the images. The experience of „flow”, the exploration of this self-repeating, yet novatory experience can often be discovered in my artistic practice. The choice is based on intuition, it doesn’t depend on context. The harmony between the material and the theme, the elaboration of certain subjectmatters is a result of a spontaneous, but regular work. ___________________________________________ I love painting. It is not just my profession or my hobby. It is my life. In everydays life I get inspired minute by minute, by walking on the streets, by my friends, by just sitting and drinking tea, or by reading, by attending concerts and so on. I try to express happenings of my life and important questions that I contemplate on. Great paintings can be born silently, gently or wildly with gestural brush strokes. And I believe there's a third way - the middle way. I think in artistic creation one can observe the world of subconscious and express not only impressions of life or memories but also spiritual values. Sometimes when I am deeply in the mood for painting, without thinking I just start playing around with materials, combining plans with spontaneity composing and building several layers on each other... to me that is expression in the language of abstraction. Some of my works are variegations of figures, forms. I depict metaphors for things and also experiences of visual or audial sensations. The impressions of observations. My artistic creation is based on observation both inside and outside mixing with symbolism, automatism and abstraction. When I start painting I never know what will happen to the canvas in the end. This is an exciting method and sometimes I can't resist repainting each work a hundred times, having many layers under each other. I could also describe my work as making the elements appear and disappear, destroying and rebuilding the picture. Thinking in layers... Finding equilibrium between composition, texture, color and shape. I also do quick and gestural ink / acrylic paintings which I really enjoy, these are kind of 5-10 minute paintings and drawings. I mostly work on big surfaces and for that I choose canvas this is what I love the most.