Major Krisztina.
Student of the Budapest Art Mentor program 2023-2024.
In her abstract gestural works, painted to the repetitive rhythm of music, she draws parallels between the future of nature and technological development. Her artwork focuses on the dilemma of the interplay between time and energy.
BiodiverZOOM
In my large-format gestural abstract canvases, I depict the reality I experience, reinterpreted with the repetitive rhythm of the energy of music.
In my subjects I draw parallels between the primordial power of nature and the traces of human greed that create global environmental problems.
I paint my compositions to the repetitive rhythm of songs from the 60s and 70s, emphasizing that the subject matter is not at all recent.
The importance of preserving biodiversity, the desire for sustainable living and the environmental and self-destruction of humanity have been addressed by artists and musicians for generations.
Our overproduction through overconsumption may threaten nature’s ability to regenerate, but let’s not forget that it is far more intelligent than we are and can take back power at any time.
Technological hyper-evolution may help to undo the damage we have caused, but time is short and we must do all we can on an individual level for ourselves, for future generations and for the future of life on Earth.
“I want to change the world, but I don’t know what to do, so I leave it up to you “*
*excerpt from the song “I’d Love to Change the World” by the British blues-rock band “Ten Years After”, from the 1971 album “A Space in Time”.
What I can do at my level is to capture the momentary vibration of the world as an imprint of our present time and trust that the energy of my creations will stir and inspire action by all those who can and will do something for a good cause. I believe in human intelligence and the resilience of mother nature, and I wish us to live together in harmony in the future.
Glaze
Glaze tracklist:
My paintings are created to the repetitive rhythm of the songs below, so if you can, listen to the songs while you look at the paintings to enhance the experience. You can also find the corresponding melody on the paintings’ datasheets.
Parallel dimensions
Earlier creations
UniverZOOM
Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi, a series of four paintings
Made: 2022, Biatorbágy, Hungary
The blending of Eastern and Western philosophy, in my own approach, is not a religious one, but an environmental call to stop destroying the Earth. Creating the concept took many months, but once the theme, design and lead colours had been defined, the images themselves were created unthinkingly, with a gestural aesthetic. The creative process took about half a year.
The name Axis Mundi refers to the World Axis. In symbolic interpretations, the symbol is the world tree, which bridges the different worlds and reflects the four cardinal points. The fruit on the world tree represents knowledge (the biblical apple tree with the apple of knowledge), with a serpent/dragon coiled next to it. Textures: green surfaces, flowery, fruity landscape, animal symbols, water. According to the guidelines of the ancient science of oriental spatial planning, the north is reinforced with blue, the east with green, the west with purple and the south with red. Reflecting on the colours and shapes, the artist depicted biblical stories, drawing attention to the fact that mankind is on the wrong path. But if we wake up in time, we can save our planet from destruction.
Material: thick canvas stretched on a metal-wood hybrid frame with metal cross stiffeners. Technique: mixed technique, impasto, high pigment acrylic based, water based, metallic (silver, gold, copper), coloured gesso primer. The staining, thickening and covering materials used are high quality, long-lasting stains (acrylic, liquid and powdered pigments, texture media, 24k gold and metallic flakes).
Surface treatment: UV and acid resistant varnish on painted surfaces, zapon varnish on metal surfaces
Weight, size: approx. 10 kg /180×180 cm/painting
Indication of origin: inscribed in the lower left corner and stamped on the reverse, with the artist’s original signature on both sides, and inscribed with the title of the work, place and date of production.
Hanging: with round picture hangers mounted on the frame (placed on the upper right and left corners of the frame).
Privately owned by an art collector in Hungary.
On public display in Tópark Office Building “B” lobby, Biatorbágy, Sasbérc utca 1b. Hungary