Ilona Szalay

22 November - 31 December 2024
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  • Storm showcases a decade of Ilona Szalay's work, exploring the power and turbulence of this elemental force.
    Game, 2024, Oil on paper, 105 x 140 cm, Framed

    Storm showcases a decade of Ilona Szalay's work, exploring the power and turbulence of this elemental force.

    Ilona Szalay’s online exhibition Storm brings together a  series of abstract landscapes that capture the intensity of both nature and human emotion.
     
    Working in oil on surfaces such as glass, aluminium, and paper, Szalay creates layered, compelling works that invite viewers to feel the beauty and unpredictability of the natural world.

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    Ilona Szalay

    (b. 1975, Beirut)

    Ilona is a British-Hungarian artist known for her exploration of power, vulnerability, and human connection. She is working across a variety of media—including canvas, tracing paper, and LED light. After studying English Literature at Oxford, she went on to complete an MFA at Central St Martins in 2002.
  • The storm begins in stillness The storm finds its voice Then comes the quiet
    Ilona Szalay,  Landscape 1–3, 2024, Oil on glass, 40 x 50 cm

    The storm begins in stillness

    The storm finds its voice

    Then comes the quiet

     

     

     

     

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  • The Weather in the Imagination, Lucian Boia
    Ilona Szalay, Untitled, 2022,  Oil on aluminium,  66 x 50 cm
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    The Weather in the Imagination

    Lucian Boia
    "The storm, in its capacity to dramatically alter landscapes, has always captured the imagination of artists, writers, and philosophers. In many cultural traditions, it has been regarded as both a divine punishment and a cleansing force. As a destructive agent, the storm signifies the power of nature to overturn human creations, yet it also holds a promise of renewal—a resetting of the world order."
  • Seascape, 2020, Oil on aluminium, 21 x 40 cm
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  • Rescue, 2024, Ilona Szalay
    Oil paint on canvas, 100 x 150cm

    Rescue, 2024

    Ilona Szalay

    Ilona Szalay’s  Storm is a testament to her ability to capture both nature’s physical landscapes and the landscapes of human emotion.

    Each piece in this collection holds an almost meditative quality, inviting viewers to step closer, take in the textures, and engage with the interplay of light and shadow. Through Storm, Szalay creates a series of works that embody intensity and calmness, conflict and peace, urging us to reflect on the storms within and around us.

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  • We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. (Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney )

    • Ilona Szalay Island, 2024 Oil on glass 75 x 100 cm
      Ilona Szalay
      Island, 2024
      Oil on glass
      75 x 100 cm
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    • Ilona Szalay Golden Volcano, 2024 Oil paint on glass 105 x 140 cm
      Ilona Szalay
      Golden Volcano, 2024
      Oil paint on glass
      105 x 140 cm
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  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley
    "The storm appeared to approach rapidly; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.
    I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the darkness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head... Vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire."

  • Storm Fear

    Robert Frost

    When the wind works against us in the dark, And pelts the snow. The lower chamber window on the east, And whispers with a sort of stifled bark, The beast,‘ Come out! Come out!’—
  • These paintings speak to the ephemeral nature
    of transformation.
    The way storms pass through us,
    rearranging what we thought unmovable,
    leaving traces of their power
    in their wake.