The exhibition, entitled Verticals and featuring works painted over the past seven years, will run until June 1. Nádler will present the works to visitors himself on June 10 and 24.
Nádler's work has gone through a significant change of style, especially concerning his use of colour. In 2001, black dominated much of his painting: tiny white lines on a black background or a black surface with a white frame. In 2004, he started painting black on black as part of the gesture movement, which uses half-instinctive, half-conscious brush strokes applied with sudden force. But Nádler gradually started introducing colour into his works: vivid oranges, reds and lemons. At the same time, square shapes were replaced with segments and arches. In his latest works, one is hard pressed to find any black.
Nádler was born in Visegrád in 1938. He studied at the Fine Arts College in Budapest in 1958-63 and started work at the Károlyi Foundation art camp in Vence in 1970 and at the artists' community in Győr in 1978. He took a number of study trips to West Germany and the Netherlands during the period. Nádler currently lives in Budapest and Feketebács.
Nádler was awarded the Munkácsy Prize in 1986 and the Kossuth Prize in 2001.
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