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Visiting period: 19th of September – 21th of November 2025
Curator: László Ujvárossy
Opening: The exhibition was officially opened by Beáta Bordás, coordinator of the Transylvanian Art Centre, Gréta Garami, art historian, curator of Kunsthalle, Budapest and László Ujvárossy, curator and initiator of the exhibition on the 19th of September 2025 at 7 p.m.
This unique exhibition evokes the personality of Pál Nagy alongside the works of his disciples. The first exhibition space summarizes the life's work of the artist and teacher, highlighting his representative works, while the other exhibition spaces of the Transylvanian Art Centre show paintings, graphics, textile artworks, and artworks that mix different genres and explore new ways to use photography, all made by his former students, reflecting their teacher's experimental approach. Thus, the exhibition offers an insight into the experimental art of Transylvania from the 1970s to the 1990s, in addition it is showcasing recent works by Pál Nagy's disciples. The curatorial selection features artworks by 29 artists, former disciples, and works of art created by their teacher.
The oeuvre of Pál Nagy (Satu Mare, 1929 – Sângeorgiu de Pădure, 1979) reveals a close connection between his independent artistic practice and his responsibility as an art teacher. Between 1952 and 1976, he was one of the most important Hungarian-language art teachers in Transylvania, as well as an exhibiting artist who, by the end of the 1960s developed a unique style of painting that combined figurative, realistic, abstract, surrealist, and kinetic elements, as well as pop art elements evoking the language of contemporary posters. Several generations of students still remember him with affection, respecting above all his professional competence, with which he introduced his students to the genres of visual arts with humanity and humour. Thus, the artist and teacher laid the foundations for the emergence of a generation of artists who, through their aesthetic and moral resistance, became defining figures of postmodern art in Romania.
As a traveling exhibition of Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, the selection presented at the Transylvanian Art Centre differs slightly from that in Budapest, as some artists sent different artworks for the exhibition and we were unable to present the works of Sándor Antik and Klára Tamás. Instead, the circle of exhibiting artists was expanded to include Magda Csutak, Dénes Kuti, Gyöngyi Károly Zöld, and Gábor Szörtsey.
Exhibiting artists:
Jakab ÁBRAHÁM (Lăzăreşti, 1952), József ADY (Livezeni, 1950 – Budapest, 1991), József BAAB (BOB) (Târgu Mureș, 1958), Pálma BAÁSZ SZIGETI (Târgu Mureș, 1954), Anikó BODOR (Târgu Mureș, 1953), Ioan BUNUȘ (Reghin, 1952), Magda CSUTAK (Sfântu Gheorghe, 1945), Károly ELEKES (Cristuru Secuiesc, 1951), Károly FERENCZI (Târgu Mureș, 1952 – Budapest, 2024), Aladár László GARDA (Sângeorgiu de Pădure, 1948), Margit HIDEG (Gheorgheni, 1958), András KATZ (Hoghiz, 1950), Gyöngyi KÁROLY ZÖLD (Târgu Mureș, 1949), Gyöngyi KEREKES (Târgu Mureș, 1958), Dénes KUTI (Târgu Mureș, 1952) Ágnes LŐRINCZ (Cristuru Secuiesc, 1959), Árpád MIKLÓS (Târnăveni, 1958), László József MOLNÁR (Oradea, 1951), Árpád Pika NAGY (Sângeru de Pădure, 1950), Pál NAGY (Satu Mare, 1929 – Sângeorgiu de Pădure, 1979), Sarolta PUSKAI (Borsec, 1955), Péter PUSZTAI (Aita Seacă, 1947 – Montréal, 2022), Lívia Zsuzsa RÁKOSFALVY (Cluj, 1955), Sándor SIPOS (Cristuru Secuiesc, 1957), Zoltán Judóka SZABÓ (Sângeorgiu de Pădure, 1952 – Târgu Mureș, 2015), Lóránt SZATHMÁRY (Reghin, 1958), Zoltán SZILÁGYI VARGA (Chiochiș, 1952), Gábor SZÖRTSEY (Odorheiu Secuiesc, 1951 – Budapest, 2004), László UJVÁROSSY (Ditrău, 1955), Gusztáv ÜTŐ (Sfântu Gheorghe, 1958)
Organizers: Sfântu Gheorghe City Hall, Transylvanian Art Centre Association, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
Sponsor: Hungarian Academy of Arts, Hungarian Government – State Secretary for National Policy, Bethlen Gábor Fund
Photo Attila TORÓ
