„Shortly before, when enlarging of the Paks nuclear power station became one of the most important topics in the public discussion, the news portal Index published a summarizing article on the history of former construction. I found an odd picture (Gábor Ruzsonyi/MTI) among the photos, where the figure of a painter, Előd Nagy seen in the foreground and the dynamic structure of the power station - being under construction – in the background. The artist documentated and represented at the same time the works by his paintings from the autoum 1979, on the comission of Benjámin Szabó goverment commissioner. The photo doesn´t make doubt about it, the artist is committed to the power.
The artist of present is also to be obliged to determine his own activity followed a resistence-cooperation line of fracture more and more, due to the culture political events of the last years. What had Előd Nagy in mind, when he undertook the commission full of power expectations? What did he think on the then challanges of the contemporary art? Did he get ideological dilemmas or opt on practical consideration for it? I refer to connections of art and power by the medium of a large oil painting, holding the documentary and partly soc-real referencies of the original photo.”           
 

Fieldwork, 2015, 200x300 cm, oil on canvas

installation view

installation view