ARTIST PROFILE

Nora Teplan

  • Hungary (b. 1990 in Budapest)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.

REPRESENTATION

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

  • 2017
  • Exhibition view - thumbnail The march - thumbnail Morpheus - thumbnail Loveless - thumbnail Blossom of the night - thumbnail The wondrous (skin like loose soil) - thumbnail Home of Joyce - thumbnail

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    Black Paintings | 2017

The purpose I have started the series ’Black paintings’ is to bring back the facture-like surfaces from the collages onto the canvas by experimenting with different materials. I like playing with the quality of black color and for that I use all kinds of materials from the charcoal to the black concrete paint to affect various visual stimuli. This visual impression works with a quite small range and the only impression you get comes out of different qualities of black materials placed next to eachother. The factures and textures that were made by this technique create a rich and painterly surface on the canvas. The line-like or the patch-like use of the blacks and greys refers to japonesque elements but at the same time the bigger parts of the homogene black paint decontextualize the content. The use of charcoal and other black material emphasise these topics’ dramatic nature and transmit the sense of helpless rage, vulnerability, self-defense and self-destruction. These phenomena usually are the effects of our social relations and life conditions, and there are complex psychological and philosophical processes behind them. In my works I would like to examine these processes through different dimensions. My question is that – in what kind of relation could life manifest itself in visual constructions, while it is the most spectacular scene for our mortal struggle, and it is able to seize the audience with its atmosphere and able to portray delitescent matter with reduction and sensibility in an oblique way?