2024. March 29. Friday
Budapest Gallery Exhibition Hall - Budapest
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Éva Rónai is a defining figure of Hungarian textile art. She creates her works using the demanding French tapestry technique on an upright loom, which is very time-consuming and requires tremendous patience, energy, and physical fortitude. Despite her use of a traditional tapestry technique and her choice of biblical-mythical subject matter, her works are surprisingly realistic. The motifs and characters which populate these textiles – often members of her family – tie them to the present, to events and occurrences of today. Her animal figures are bearers of symbolic meanings and human characteristics; in turn, they appear in these works in “true tales”. The critical standpoint, the mild humour, and occasionally the wry irony make the tapestries of Éva Rónai into flesh-and-blood contemporary art.
Her exhibition in Óbuda looks back on thirty years of work while also presenting new, recently completed tapestries.
“With respect to Éva Rónai’s large-scale textile pictures, it is important to observe that she works on each of them on her own for a year – a year and a half. She not only designs them, she also weaves them herself. Thus, her works – which are the creations of a single individual – completely express her sense of life, the flutterings of her mood. In all of her compositions, she moves her viewers with her personal touch.”
István Antal, 2003
Her exhibition in Óbuda looks back on thirty years of work while also presenting new, recently completed tapestries.
“With respect to Éva Rónai’s large-scale textile pictures, it is important to observe that she works on each of them on her own for a year – a year and a half. She not only designs them, she also weaves them herself. Thus, her works – which are the creations of a single individual – completely express her sense of life, the flutterings of her mood. In all of her compositions, she moves her viewers with her personal touch.”
István Antal, 2003