Goda Gertrud: Nagy Gy. Margit gobelinművész (Officina Musei 14. Miskolc, 2006)

Summary Margit Nagy Gy. was born on March 17', 1931 in the small city Mezőtúr in the Hungarian Plains. She fell back on a very old technique, with the help of which she shows us her artistic credo. The manufacturing of woven tapestry or Gobelin (French gobelin) has been known since the early civilization and was widely dispersed. The remains from the oldest times like the Coptic clothing and the Kelim carpet from the culture of the nomads deserve an important place up to the present day. In Europe she appropriated the medieval art of the court, and in the 17

th century everything what was produced by the Gobelin Company in Paris became valuables. Her works were also represented in the Hungarian people's-art. But this intellectual concern, which is characteristic for Margit Nagy Gy, is not very typical for her craftsmanship but it is rather closer to painting. Between 1950 and 1956, she was a student at the Hungarian College for Arts and Crafts in Budapest. Her master Noémi Ferenczy (1890-1958) considered the Gobelin-technique as a picture-art, which refers back to the old classical principles. At that time, the topic was not drafted by a special-painter, but the artist adopted the precision of each detail's implementation. The students of Noémi Ferenczy also followed this line. After receiving her diploma she moved together with her husband Miklós Varga, a sculptor, into the artist-colony of Kecskemét in 1957. The stimulating influence of their combined lives and studies can be traced in their work. They organized almost all of their exhibitions together! The first works of Margit Nagy Gy. originate from an order of the state. She already showed them on the world-youth-day in Vienna with success. Her works quickly found their way into the whole world. Often they were selected as diplomatic gifts. (Switzerland, China.)