Abstract painting by TAmas WAGner Artist
Tamas
Wagner is one of those contemporary painters who - as a post-naive artist - creates his work instinctively. His art work can be described as a self-reflection. He is
assessing his own style with the following sentences: “Painting wit used credit cards...I can’t…but I like it.“ Tom was born in 1977 in Eger, Hungary. His art career started relatively
late - nearly after 30 years - when his first painting (devil’s house) was made in 2007. However, Tom’s artistic awakening after this long period came
all of a sudden and fast. He painted his first art works usually overnight and more specifically on New Year’s Eve (just like one of his paintings called the golden pussy
lady, 2008). His time and work in Eger was highly influenced and benefited from the emotional atmosphere and closed erotic micro-climate of his hometown. Therefore, his
paintings reflect a lot more vivid and figurative style than his later artworks. Despite all these, we can still sense his non-figurative effort that is especially a main feature of his
later works.
After the longer period in Eger that had been “heated with emotion”, there came a new - 8 year-long - break in his career. In 2011 he and his whole
family moved to Germany. The new existential challenges, the new arising difficulties due to his integration and the new responsibility with his small daughters temporarily did not let
him dedicate much time to painting. His first Rutesheim picture (tour de France at rainy weather, 2017) - compared to his previous style - was clearly non-figurative. Despite that we
can mainly observe the dominance of the colour gray and white on the painting, some of his old-self is still present in the form of
the colour blue and purple. We can also easily spot the crowd through the pouring rain. The painting is extremely clean and its style might resemble
us a bit to the works of Simon Hantai, only that Tom Vagner’s paintings are a lot more technicist and bold. We might find it more difficult to discover erotic features in this picture
compared to his previous painting - golden pussy lady - 9 years ago. And this is not a coincidence: the difference between the two paintings show the gradual steps of Tom’s psychosexual
progression. The hesitant and a bit indecisive period of his career in 2008 is in the past forever: Tom’s work entered a mature era. His new East Block art in 2018 is
one of his ‘routine works’.
2019, Budapest
by Gabe
(well known psychological stock specialist)
