NagyMolnar
Fényművész / Light artist
Biography
"The "Geometry of Light" art project, launched by Krisztián Nagy and Csaba Molnár in 2020, came about after a lengthy period of technological experimentation, driven by the deep-felt creative urge bursting from both members of the art duo. Our art inherit Glass Art and Light Art elements, so we mixed this techniques (glass facing, and light designing). Our works can be regarded as a fusion of Op Art and Light Art, but as there is no standard name for it, our form of art could be called “geo-optical light sculpture”. It should be emphasized, that we are not digital artists, we achieve our visual world through the glassworking (the physics of glass) and the creative use of light technology. Our creative process is divided into two parts: glasswork and light-planing/designing.
Light is part of our everyday experience – our existence would be unimaginable without it. As lighting technologies have developed, they have become an increasingly important and decisive component of our lives and our living spaces. Our daily active rhythm of life has become increasingly extended in recent decades, which is perhaps why a work of art that, altough visible during the day, shows its really exciting side in the darkness of the evening and night, could be an exciting jewel in the living space of an art-lover.
With the help of our hand-built light objects, we attempt to shape light as a “material” into simple geometrical patterns and arrange it into complex spatial networks. Then, with the use of special glass mirrors, we place this “shaped light” into new perspectives, into “infinite space”, where it conjures up a completely different kind of spectacle and takes on new meaning. An important element of our technique is that we make the "source" of the light invisible, so that the lights do not appear directly in our works, adding to the mystical effect. This innovative, darkness and light-based spectacle opens up a new dimension for exploring cavernous depths and vast distances, which we utilise to map out the universe of our imagination (black holes, space-time tunnels, pulsars, galaxies...).
By making light, also with using darkness interact with the physical and optical properties of special glass and by creating different geometric shapes and spatial networks, we aim to provide observers with a new visual experience, something to contemplate that has never been seen before. We hope that, beyond the mere spectacle, the viewer will be touched by the thoughts and questions that inspired our works.
Our work often deals with deep and serious issues. We often ask the question of how and why human or our world came into being, whether it is the result of conscious planning, or whether, through a series of coincidences, a species exists on Earth that is capable of searching for the meaning and origin of its own existence...
The central components of our works are the questions of physicality without space and space without physicality, the formation of virtual mass, and the use of light to render material visible (or invisible).
Our works are able to show not only the static, but also the constant variability, with the changeability of light, either directly or programmatically, giving us the opportunity to try to illustrate the concept of the 4th dimension, that is time, and to make the viewer feel the constant change and the tension that comes with it."
Krisztián Nagy was born: Budapest, 26.06.1982.
Németh László Eighth Grade High School – Budapest, Hungary Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Faculty of Law and Political
Sciences -Budapest, Hungary Csaba Molnár was born: Budapest, 08.10.1978.Öveges
József Technical College, Budapest, Hungary
Light is part of our everyday experience – our existence would be unimaginable without it. As lighting technologies have developed, they have become an increasingly important and decisive component of our lives and our living spaces. Our daily active rhythm of life has become increasingly extended in recent decades, which is perhaps why a work of art that, altough visible during the day, shows its really exciting side in the darkness of the evening and night, could be an exciting jewel in the living space of an art-lover.
With the help of our hand-built light objects, we attempt to shape light as a “material” into simple geometrical patterns and arrange it into complex spatial networks. Then, with the use of special glass mirrors, we place this “shaped light” into new perspectives, into “infinite space”, where it conjures up a completely different kind of spectacle and takes on new meaning. An important element of our technique is that we make the "source" of the light invisible, so that the lights do not appear directly in our works, adding to the mystical effect. This innovative, darkness and light-based spectacle opens up a new dimension for exploring cavernous depths and vast distances, which we utilise to map out the universe of our imagination (black holes, space-time tunnels, pulsars, galaxies...).
By making light, also with using darkness interact with the physical and optical properties of special glass and by creating different geometric shapes and spatial networks, we aim to provide observers with a new visual experience, something to contemplate that has never been seen before. We hope that, beyond the mere spectacle, the viewer will be touched by the thoughts and questions that inspired our works.
Our work often deals with deep and serious issues. We often ask the question of how and why human or our world came into being, whether it is the result of conscious planning, or whether, through a series of coincidences, a species exists on Earth that is capable of searching for the meaning and origin of its own existence...
The central components of our works are the questions of physicality without space and space without physicality, the formation of virtual mass, and the use of light to render material visible (or invisible).
Our works are able to show not only the static, but also the constant variability, with the changeability of light, either directly or programmatically, giving us the opportunity to try to illustrate the concept of the 4th dimension, that is time, and to make the viewer feel the constant change and the tension that comes with it."
Krisztián Nagy was born: Budapest, 26.06.1982.
Prizes
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2024. Pécs (Hungary) – Zsolnay Light Festival + Solo exhibition –
Nick Gallery – New Dimensions 2022. Budapest (Hungary) – Virág Judit Gallery – The Geometry of
Light II. 2021. Pécs (Hungary) - Zsolnay Light Festival + Solo exhibition - Zsdrál
Art Gallery - The Geometry of Light I. 2021. Balatonfüred (Hungary) - Zsdrál Art Gallery - The Geometry of Light
I. GROUP EXHIBITIONS2024. Annual RCAG International Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition – Red
Moon Art Glass Gallery – Melbourne - Australia 2024. Closing exhibition of the Hungarian-Turkish Cultural Year – Hasan
Saritas Gallery – Istambul – Turkey 2024. Light-Fractures - Light Art exhibition - Szentendre Old Artists'
Village - Petőfi Cultural Agency 2024. Art Miami – On the booths of Oliver Cole Gallery – Miami, USA
– 2024 December 2024. LightDome 2. – Light Art Exhibition - Budapest Biodome 2024. ESG Art 2024
- Awards ceremony and Exhibition of the finalists – Budapest,
Whale 2024. 70. jubilee Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely – Hódmezővásárhely,
Gallery Alföldi – Tornyai János Museum 2024. Budapest Contemporary Exhibition Art Fair – Booth: Zsdrál Art –
Budapest, Whale 2024. S/ALON Budapest Exhibition – Booth: Zsdral Art - Budapest
Sportarena 2024. Annual RCAG International Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition – Red
Moon Art Glass Gallery – Melbourne – Australia 2024. Homage á Neumann Exhibition Series 9. station - Kaposvár –
Gallery Rippl 2024. Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair – Exhibition booth of
Oliver Cole Gallery – Palm Beach County Convention Center - USA 2024. „Blue Light” International Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition –
Red Moon Art Glass Gallery – Melbourne – Australia 2024. Art Wynwood Art Fair – on the booth of Oliver Cole Gallery –
Biscayne Bay – Miami – USA 2024. Art + Contemporary Palm Beach – on the booth of Oliver Cole
Gallery – Palm Beach – Palm Beach County Convention Center –
USA 2024. Homage á Neumann Exhibition Series 8. station – FUGA Budapest –
Hungarian Architectural Center 2023. MET Gallery – Winter exhibition – Budapest 2023. Art Miami – On the booths of Oliver Cole Gallery – Miami, USA
– 2023 December 2023. Annual RCAG International Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition
– Red Moon Art Glass Gallery – Melbourne - Australia 2023. „Aurora” – 2023. International Art Glass Exhibition - Red Moon
Art Glass Gallery - Melbourne – Australia 2023. Art Market Budapest (International Contemporary Exhibition and Art
Fair) – on the booth of Zsdrál Art Gallery, and the booth of the
HEAA. – Budapest - Whale 2023. 69. Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely – Hódmezővásárhely,
Gallery Alföldi – Tornyai János Museum 2023. Budapest Contemporary Exhibition Art Fair – Booth: Zsdrál Art –
Budapest, Whale 2023. Homage á Neumann Exhibition Series 2. station – Kepes Institute –
Eger 2023. Homage á Neumann Exhibition Series 1. station – Gallery A22 –
Budapest 2023. Melbourne Design Week (NGV) – Australia Contemporary Art Glass
Exhibition – Red Moon Art Glass Gallery – Melbourne –
Australia 2023. Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair – Exhibition booth of
Oliver Cole Gallery – Palm Beach County Convention Center – USA 2023. Blue Sea - 2023 International Art Glass Exhibition - Red Moon Art
Glass Gallery - Melbourne – Australia 2022. Art Market Budapest (International Contemporary Art Fair) –
Exhibition booths of Zsdrál Gallery, and HEAA 2022. The Hungarian Electrographic Art Association – (HEAA) exhibition
from the selection of the 3. Digital Triennial (2021) - Gallery
Próféta - Budapest - Hungary 2022. OASIS - 2022 Annual International Art Glass Exhibition - Red Moon Art
Glass Gallery - Melbourne – Australia 2022. 20. Years Jubilee Exhibition of the Hungarian Electrographic Art
Association – HEAA – FUGA Budapest – Hungarian Architectural
Center 2021. Poetry and Distance - 2021 Annual International Art Glass Exhibition
- Red Moon Art Glass Gallery - Melbourne – Australia 2021. S/ALON Budapest Exhibition – Booth: Zsdral Art - Budapest
Sportarena 2021. 3rd International Digital Triennial - Szekszárd - House of Arts
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