An MFA graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Hungarian artist Kinga Bartis is currently presenting her debut Paris exhibition, “In a one,” at Galerie Marguo. The show features 12 new paintings conceived in the last five months as she’s traveled back and forth between Paris and her home in Copenhagen. These works span from expansive canvases to smaller, intimate pieces. Each painting renders its figures amid dreamlike landscapes awash with vivid, fiery colors.
A standout work is Brave are the tiny stones sleeping in wild rivers (2024), a 6.5-by-10-foot blue oil painting portraying two sleeping figures beneath two anthropomorphic trees adorned with a bright red canopy. Often, Bartis merges her subjects’ body parts into the natural landscapes: A hand morphs into tree roots while birds appear to soar out of swirling, cloud-filled skies. This approach, where she embeds the human body into landscapes, creates a dialogue regarding our place in nature.
