Orsolya Drozdik (1946), visual artist Me and the Nude Model (1973–77) – Stepping Out of the Book: Memories of a Female Artist Who Drew the Female Body (etchings, drawings, cartoons, poems) presents a remarkable selection of early works by this unconventional cosmopolitan artist. The chamber exhibition focuses on the motivation, basic tools, and themes of her unusual oeuvre. It provides a glimpse into the thoughts, intellectual and spiritual struggles, and experimental search for her path using traditional and new techniques and styles of the artist, who was then at the beginning of her career.
Most of the works in the chamber exhibition were created using traditional graphic techniques. We can see Drozdik’s drawings and etchings, which he created while studying graphic reproduction at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, as well as his related theoretical writings, poems, and animations. His study drawings, executed with virtuoso technical skill, do not reflect the traditional artistic education of the period, but critically reflect on the spirit of the age and the current social, philosophical, and artistic milieu. The exhibition is a plastic imprint of the conceptual artist’s search for his path and recognition of his identity, foreshadowing his entire career.