Street scene no.1 Photograph - Limited Edition of 50

András Nagy is a multimedia artist, born in 1972 in Budapest. His creative work is comprehensive and multifaceted. Photography, cinematography, and sound sculpture form a close-knit unity within his artistic repertoire. Throughout his career, he has photographed and filmed in numerous countries around the world. Since the 1990s, his works have been regularly featured in cinemas, galleries, and radio broadcasts. His ars poetica revolves around thinking in processes. The power of images comes from the intense experience they convey, the act of becoming one with the subject in the moment. He primarily works with traditional silver-based materials, using film ranging from 35mm format to 4x5 large format. His works place great emphasis on impeccable technical quality. He scans his images with a special drum scanner that faithfully reproduces the diverse sensitivities of the film material. András Nagy’s sensitive perspective is probably best known from his work as a cinematographer, for example in the feature films Bibliotheque Pascal, White Palms, or Eternal Winter. Besides creating moving pictures and constructed spectacles, he has also established a more liberated, peculiar photographic universe. Everyday scenes, locations, objects, which become highlighted by the gesture of taking the photograph. The meticulous compositions and the sometimes seemingly insignificant situations invite the spectators to reevaluate the relationships and interconnections, and take part in a peculiar dialogue. The questions primarily target the subjects of the images: of whom, where, under what circumstances could they have been taken? The gaze searches for the familiar points of association until the time spent with the images raises our awareness to how the initial concepts must be replaced by a deeper, internal way of perception, the understanding of the symbols. Beyond the presence of light, the shadows also point to what is not included in the photograph, the source of the shadow itself. The bushes located on the side of a street or the verge of a field could be symbolically interpreted reaching even as far as the Biblical story of the burning bush, the origin of establishing a kind of moral standard. The human portraits, the contemplating, distant gazes, the steps, the anticipation, the kiss, the dance, the activities extrapolated from the flow of time and placed in a peculiar framework display the elevated contents hidden in the simplest of situations.