The series painted by the painter in 2020 during the quarantine (Quarantine Pictures) is the starting point of the exhibition.
The impersonal figures of the series, which split the same size of the picture surfaces and exist only in the world of the pictorial space, which is removed from reality, reflect in painterly language on the social situation of the recent past. In the sequel, there is a series of images of liberation from confinement, to which the second half of the exhibition’s title, “Distant Shores”, refers.
These images are the result of liberated journeys and new painterly challenges. In detail, expressive and rhythmic brush and form treatment, a vibrant and modulating use of colour, abstract landscape abstractions and realistically rendered images that allude to art historical themes characterise these pieces in the exhibition.
The works in the exhibition run the gamut from representational painting to full abstraction, woven into a story by Márton Magyari’s personal painterly language, consistently developed over several decades.