On March 11 at 16:00, we are honored to invite you to the opening of Stefan-Arpad Magyar’s personal exhibition project “Color Preference. Color Experiments”, which will be held at the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum with the support of the Embassy of Hungary in Ukraine.
“For 50 years of his creative activity, the artist Stefan-Arpad Magyar has worked in various genres of fine art, with different materials, in a wide range of themes. But the study of color in the system of color harmonies is the main thing in the artist’s work. This artistic passion is interconnected with many years of scientific and practical research in the field of color dynamics. Each painting-tableau – depending on the artistic task – has its own dominant color ratio. It is these key harmonious color ratios that become the generator of a color sensory impulse, a reflection of an instant energy message. Thus, the color impact is enhanced.
It is based on the method of color influence, color treatment, color bioregulation, psychophysiological adaptation with the help of color in the course of sensory sensation and perception of electromagnetic waves of different lengths and intensities.
And if earlier it was a sensory color impulse as the main aesthetic factor, a tool for diagnosis and treatment, now the emphasis has shifted, and the artist-scientist is primarily interested in the sensory and color environment of influence. There are cycles of works where the main focus is on the combination of color zones, where the color decoding of states and impressions takes place, where the path of development of patterns associated with the concept of residual memory is explored and reproduced.” (Anastasia Strii, art critic at the NU ART Gallery, Kyiv, PhD student at the Department of Art Theory and History of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences of Ukraine).
The exhibition presents a part of the paintings-tables covering four sections of the research areas of studying the influence of color:
I Scientific and aesthetic system of color harmonies.
II Color-dynamic paintings-tables based on the triadic harmonies of the 12-stage color range of the most saturated colors of the Coloroid color system by academician Antal Nemcic.
III Triadic harmonic systems containing complimentary (opposite) and successive (sequential) color contrasts.
IV “Colorword” (“Colorpaint”) – a color image of contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
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Stefan-Arpad Magyar was born in 1951 in Transcarpathia (Chop). From 1973 to 1979, he studied at the Faculty of Graphics of the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute named after I. Fedorov (his diploma work was the artistic design and illustration of the poem “The Apostle” by Sandor Petofi). His teachers were well-known artists Florian Yuriev and Valerii Lamakh, and art historians Dmytro Horbachov and Ihor Dychenko. Thanks to the influence of Yuriev and Lamakh, he delved into the study of color science and realized that the phenomenon of color requires a thorough scientific approach.
From 1981 to 1991 – senior artist-restorer of precious metals at the State Museum of Historical Treasures of the Ukrainian SSR. 1991-2005 – art editor, chief artist of Polyhrafknyha OJSC. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1995.
In 2005, together with his teachers Florian Yuriev (Ukraine), Antal Nemchych (Hungary) and Tatiana Maltseva (USA), he created the Modus Coloris International Public Academy, which is engaged in scientific and practical activities in the field of color dynamics and the study of the influence of color on the psycho-emotional and psychophysiological state of the individual. He began his active scientific work in 1993 with a report at the World Congress of Colorists (AIC). He is a frequent participant in international conferences on color theory. Since 1993, he has been studying color dynamics in depth under the guidance of Professor Academician Antal Nemchych, Head of the Department of Color Dynamics at the Budapest Polytechnic University. The main direction of his scientific research and artistic search is human color preference and the creation of a color adaptive environment to harmonize the psycho-emotional state of a person both in extreme conditions and in everyday life. In 2011, the author’s monograph “Color Ratios” was published (in Hungarian, Budapest).
He created the author’s methodology “Biocolor” and since 2000 has been conducting scientific research on polychrome adaptation correction of the psychophysiological state of a person in the Antarctic; developing a methodology to help overcome the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder together with the Department of Medical and Biological Research of the National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine on the basis of the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2014, he took part in a scientific field seasonal study, visited the Ukrainian Antarctic station and became one of the few professional artists who studied and painted the colorful environment of Antarctica. He is the author and compiler of the book “Hungarians in Kyiv. Chapters in the History of Hungarian-Ukrainian Relations from the IX Century to the Present”.
The artist’s works are kept in collections in the USA, Israel, Hungary, Great Britain, Norway, Germany, Austria, Georgia, Switzerland, Belgium, and Ukraine.
