Anthony Fawcett, the esteemed art critic and historian, once served as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal curator. His illustrious career includes introducing Man Ray to London, collaborating with icons like Andy Warhol, and assuming pivotal roles in leading art institutions. Fawcett is renowned for his 80 historical interviews with legends such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Gilbert & George and many others.

Judit Nagy L: Review by Anthony Fawcett

Judit Nagy L. is a multi-talented painter originally from the Hungarian minority enclave of Slovakia and now based in Switzerland. A highly spiritual artist, Nagy's late-in-life breakthrough into the art world came after a cathartic pilgrimage to Compostela in Spain.

In Nagy's multimedia oeuvre, she conjures up magical works using age-old materials such as wine and earth. The ancient Romans aptly spoke of the ‘genius loci’ or ‘genius of place,’ and the soil of Mount Etna on Sicily's East Coast attracted her to spend time there working on several wine-related projects. Some of Italy's most famous organic wines come from this active volcano, and vines can grow up to 1,000 m (3281 ft).

“We do not ‘create,’ but rather we are in the process of creation that we embody,” Judit Nagy L. has stated. Alchemy too has an important role in her paintings, especially in a recent triptych of horses, entitled Pride. They appear to be almost jumping out of the canvas with an undulatory downwards movement. Each highly ornate frame is painted in the color of the three elements of alchemy: copper (Cu), silver (Ag), and gold (Au). There is an interplay of sensual memory at work here.

Destiny once more is calling Judit Nagy L. to ever more mystical and sacred places to explore her quest for harmony in her layered and thickly pigmented paintings, where she will continue to strive for the hidden truths of life.

-Anthony Fawcett

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In creating the „PRIDE“ trilogy, I was interested in two things: firstly, reflecting on the personality of the horse(s) – the calm influence that a horse can exude; secondly, using this healthy pride, strength, elegance and awareness that horses exude in their purity to express the three elements of alchemy: Cu – copper, Ag – silver and Au – gold, all three of which symbolise our (self-)development as humans. The transcendent process from 3D, via 4D to 5D.

Each colour and each hand/brush movement has its own meaning, and the chemical atomic symbols (Cu, Ag, Au) in the top left corners of the paintings are not just for decorating purposes.

I want to believe that we humans are already on this path of alchemy, and – in the case of an unlocked consciousness – that we are already walking it. It requires constant self-work, self-improvement and self-reflection – all for a single purpose: to become a better version of ourselves each night than we were the morning before. At least that’s the path I’ve chosen, although I still make a lot of mistakes.