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

From 1960 she lived and worked in the artist-colony of Miskolc. In the first decade of her career the figure composition was characteristic. In this style she decorated highly-ranking interiors like that of the Ministry of Education, the Madách theatre and the formal central-house of the societies in Miskolc. From her very start she was thrilled by the simplification of the picture. In the seventies this tendency led to the geometrical abstraction in total. Two forms, the square and the circle, became the dominating motives. And when we think about it, it seems not to be easy in relation to weaving! At that time, it was still stimulated by the living, pure colours. In the next art-period, she emphasized her fine plastic that only comes about the puritanical influence of the white thread. The isolation in the studio always inspired her with new ideas. With her woven tapestry she said goodbye to the wall-surface in a certain way and produced perforated, spatial forms. Later, in the eighties, she returned to the two dimensions and was influenced by the "microscopic world". We can consider these works as a result of the experiences of a long, busy life: the relationship to nature, the artistic arrangement that also the human feeling cannot do without, and the implementation, that aims at the total. This concentration-work, 1 m

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/year/hand-weaver, was an attack on her health in each sense. In the last two decades Margit Nagy Gy. showed us her artistic credo with fire-enamelled techniques that put a strain on her health.