Nádler is one of few artists whose life work can be consistently tracked - step by step -- as he follows a single line of thought or tackles one problem. This new exhibition shows works made after he came out of a period during which he painted almost exclusively with black. Though the earliest paintings in the exhibition, from 2001, are nearly entirely black, with a few strokes of grey here and there, in the works that follow, new colours appear, yellow and orange, and Nádler finds a geometric rhythm.
"István Nádler is a painter-poet of loneliness. His references are liteary, musical and painterly evocations of artists whose works he has reinterpreted to enrich his own poetic idiom....His unmistakably idosyncratic form of expression manifests a Neo-Subjectivism that considers art as the continuum of inner investigation," Lóránd Hegyi writes on the artist's website.
