Grass

With these works, the original source of inspiration for Daniela Bikacsi and Peter Galhidy is the same. Nature, landscape, plants, a blade of grass – all have stimulated artistic creation many times before, their inspirational power inexhaustible, their diversity offering ever new meaning.

In this case, however, we cannot talk about mirroring nature; Bikacsi is not a landscape painter and Galhidy is not a naturalist sculptor. In Daniela Bikacsi’s paintings, the main elements are man-made places (a swimming pool, a sandbox, a graveyard) without human figures. The surrounding landscape, the deserted feeling of the objects and the choice of viewpoint radiate loneliness without implying emptiness. This is because the light reflecting on the colours gives the objects a mystical aura. The viewer feels that what he/she sees is not just a sandbox, a swimming pool, a staircase or a graveyard… Something has already happened here… This place, this landscape, has become sacred, wants to tell us something, and does this through the paintings of Daniela Bikacsi.

The very structure of Peter Galhidy’s sculptures plays a major co-ordinating role that provides the backbone for the creative process even before the sculpture comes into existence. Inspired by nature – a broken blade of grass or a leaf – finer, gently moving lines appear next to his constructional, structure-like sculptures and nylon line installations. He doubly transmutes the chosen form into the language of sculpture by greatly increasing size and by using iron.

Both artists faithfully and consistently use the same materials and techniques: Daniella Bikacsi egg tempera and water colour, Peter Galhidy iron and nylon line.