Peter Nagy has become a well known name amongst those who follow Indian
contemporary art, as he is a strong campaigner for the art movement in India. After he moved to India himself in the early 1990s, he discovered on arrival the experimental and colorful art scene and since then has worked on getting Indian art noticed in the
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Peter Nagy has become a well known name amongst those who follow Indian
contemporary art, as he is a strong campaigner for the art movement in India. After he moved to India himself in the early 1990s, he discovered on arrival the experimental and colorful art scene and since then has worked on getting Indian art noticed in the Western world. He is also a postmodernist so in his work he likes to focus on mapping cultural identity.He has nicknamed his art, "brainteasers" as they entice the viewer to attempt to sort between the different symbols from varying cultures and understand how they relate. An artist himself, Peter Nagy works with an easel or as a sculptor and also creates murals. He uses both acrylic and oil paint in his work, along with ink and aluminium. By utilizing these mediums in his art, Peter Nagy is able to create an abstract style, focusing on certain subjects. One of his more common subjects is architecture for a range of different buildings from industrial factories to modern inhabited houses. He also creates artwork which shows human activity. Recently, Peter Nagy has also been a curator for his own art museum as well as a writer for magazines specializing in
contemporary art.
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