Annamária Gáspár is a self-taught artist, who has acquired outstanding technical knowledge and skills in the use of a wide variety of materials outside the classical institutional framework. In addition to oil on canvas paintings, she creates textile works, installations using unique materials and sculptural works. Themes of femininity and qualities traditionally considered feminine are expressed through the use of textiles, faux fur and embroidery. In her latest works, she uses metal, aluminium, sheet steel, and she even experiments with engraving and welding with courage and skill. She draws rich references from both the Western and Eastern traditions of art history into her artwork. During her doctoral research, she came into contact with Japanese traditional art, the ideas and motifs of which are incorporated into her work through the filter of her individual artistic approach. In addition to Japanese culture, Zen Buddhism and the feminist art tradition are the main spiritual pillars of her creative practice. As she so eloquently put it about her own work: "The floating backgrounds of the images, without space and time, and the use of the colour gold, are linked to Japanese culture not only at the level of thought, but also in terms of art history. The recurring motifs in the paintings, such as the eye, the sun, chains, water and plants, or the tulle curtain (as a veil covering the reality behind the surface) are references to religious and philosophical trends related to the reassessment of our spiritual life. From a formal point of view, by contrasting the figural parts floating in space with the randomly arranged textural background, I try to represent the visible and the invisible transcendental world in parallel. In line with the metallic colours, pink is one of the most peaceful colours, besides being feminine in its application, and thus also an expression of the desire for spiritual harmony." PV

Annamária Gáspár is a self-taught artist, who has acquired outstanding technical knowledge and skills in the use of a wide variety of materials outside the classical institutional framework. In addition to oil on canvas paintings, she creates textile works, installations using unique materials and sculptural works. Themes of femininity and qualities traditionally considered feminine are expressed through the use of textiles, faux fur and embroidery. In her latest works, she uses metal, aluminium, sheet steel, and she even experiments with engraving and welding with courage and skill. She draws rich references from both the Western and Eastern traditions of art history into her artwork. During her doctoral research, she came into contact with Japanese traditional art, the ideas and motifs of which are incorporated into her work through the filter of her individual artistic approach. In addition to Japanese culture, Zen Buddhism and the feminist art tradition are the main spiritual pillars of her creative practice. As she so eloquently put it about her own work: "The floating backgrounds of the images, without space and time, and the use of the colour gold, are linked to Japanese culture not only at the level of thought, but also in terms of art history. The recurring motifs in the paintings, such as the eye, the sun, chains, water and plants, or the tulle curtain (as a veil covering the reality behind the surface) are references to religious and philosophical trends related to the reassessment of our spiritual life. From a formal point of view, by contrasting the figural parts floating in space with the randomly arranged textural background, I try to represent the visible and the invisible transcendental world in parallel. In line with the metallic colours, pink is one of the most peaceful colours, besides being feminine in its application, and thus also an expression of the desire for spiritual harmony." PV