Márta Makkai and her daughter, Beatrix Makkai-Kovács, use different techniques but share a similar vision and visual language in their work. Márta Makkai has been creating autonomous woven tapestries, spatial textiles, and mini textiles since 1995 using her own unique application of the ikat technique. She creates her lyrical and refined works by combining traditional craft techniques with modern visual thinking. Woven tapestry is an independent means of expression: the subtle interplay of surfaces, threads, layers, and structures conveys emotional and intellectual content.
Beatrix Makkai-Kovács’s acrylic-on-canvas paintings and collages composed of painted canvas and woven textile fragments are based on the harmony of colors, shapes, and sensual surfaces that traverse the boundaries between personal experience and abstraction. Her works are characterized by a combination of constructive image formation and sensitive lyricism. Her paintings are composed of multiple layers, in which transparency, concealment, obscurity, and absence are important elements.
Colors play a prominent role in the works of both artists, through which they depict emotional states, atmospheric phenomena in nature, and sacred thoughts. Nature and water are important sources of inspiration for the artists, and their spiritual responses and emotional attunement to these phenomena are reflected in their works. They reveal the deeper layers of the human soul, and both artists are preoccupied with attuning themselves to the natural landscape and their own inner worlds, listening inwardly, immersing themselves, and depicting these experiences visually.