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Márta
Nyilas
Hungary · Based in Pécs
"The essence of painting lies in the deliberate organization of the picture surface: creating a visual order in which, by the time the work is finished, the image itself becomes a new visual phenomenon — even to me."
Presented work · Pietà · 2024 · Oil on canvas · 40 × 40 cm
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Márta Nyilas is a selected member of offliners.art — a curated collective of committed artists initiated by Karel Stoop · GZ Contemporary Art, Tarragona.
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GZ Contemporary Art · offliners.art · 2024"In Pietà, Nyilas strips the sacred archetype down to its most essential human truth — two figures, one grief, rendered in paint that thinks with its body."
Márta Nyilas approaches the Pietà — one of Western art's most charged iconographic themes — not through its religious symbolism but through the raw physicality of the relationship it encodes. The composition reduces the scene to its irreducible core: two figures, merged in an embrace that is simultaneously tender and devastating. The absence of narrative distance pulls the viewer into an immediate, almost uncomfortable proximity.
Technically, the work demonstrates Nyilas's command of layered oil paint, moving fluidly between impasto passages and translucent glazes. The dominant blue ground — luminous, almost cold — functions as both atmosphere and psychological space. Against it, the warm terracotta and burnt sienna of the figures create a chromatic tension that reads as the contrast between absence and presence, the living and the spent.
The brushwork itself carries the emotional weight of the piece. Marks are not descriptive but expressive — they trace the artist's own act of looking and feeling, making the painting simultaneously a depiction and a performance of mourning. The faces are suggested rather than rendered, allowing the viewer's own projection to complete the emotional circuit.
In Nyilas's broader practice, the relationship between figures — human and animal, human and human — serves as the primary vehicle for exploring states of ambiguity, resignation and melancholy. Pietà embodies this tendency at its most concentrated: a work in which the universal and the intimate are held in the same gesture.
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Subject: Pietà · Márta Nyilas · offliners.art Dear [name], I would like to draw your attention to a work I find particularly compelling — Pietà (2024, oil on canvas, 40 × 40 cm) by Márta Nyilas, presented on offliners.art. The work reinterprets the classical Pietà theme through an expressive, layered approach — two figures reduced to their essential human connection, rendered in a palette of deep blue and warm terracotta that holds grief and tenderness simultaneously. You can view the full presentation, including curatorial analysis and virtual 3D room, at: https://offliners.art/nyilasmarta The work is available. I would be happy to discuss further. Kind regards, Márta Nyilas nyilasmarta@gmail.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Márta Nyilas presents Pietà offliners.art · 2024 Pécs, July 2026 — Márta Nyilas, selected member of offliners.art — a curated collective of committed artists initiated by Karel Stoop and GZ Contemporary Art — presents Pietà, an oil on canvas measuring 40 × 40 cm, created in 2024. The work reinterprets one of Western art's most charged iconographic themes through pure painterly means. Stripped of religious narrative, it focuses on the essential human relationship between the two figures: care, grief and physical proximity rendered in layered oil paint that moves between impasto and translucent glazes. A deep blue ground holds the warm terracotta forms in a chromatic tension between absence and presence. The work is available. Full documentation, curatorial analysis and virtual 3D room at: https://offliners.art/nyilasmarta For press enquiries: nyilasmarta@gmail.com Artist website: www.martanyilas.hu
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Márta Nyilas — Pietà (2024) Pietà is an oil on canvas work by Hungarian artist Márta Nyilas, measuring 40 × 40 cm and created in 2024. The work is presented on offliners.art as part of a curated collective of committed artists. Rather than depicting a recognisable religious narrative, Nyilas reduces the Pietà to its irreducible human core — two figures in an embrace that is simultaneously tender and devastating. The dominant blue ground and warm terracotta figures create a chromatic tension that reads as the contrast between absence and presence. View the full presentation including curatorial analysis and interactive 3D room at: https://offliners.art/nyilasmarta Márta Nyilas is a selected member of offliners.art, initiated by Karel Stoop · GZ Contemporary Art, Tarragona. Her work can also be seen at www.martanyilas.hu