Miklos Nemeth

Erotic in Blue condenses an erotic motif into a pulsing field of lines, where interlocked nude female bodies appear as rhythmically placed contours that divide the surface into segmented fields. Dominant cobalt and ultramarine blues are accented by reds, yellows and greens, creating a lively mesh of colour traces that operates without depth modelling. The bodies are outlined rather than modelled, so the surface remains evenly charged and centreless; lines and colour areas carry the image from edge to edge and keep the gaze in motion.

The figures read as elastic, bent forward and tipping against one another, a tension that recalls Chaim Soutine, whose bodies seem to vibrate under inner pressure. There is no fixed vanishing point; instead, a labyrinthine, meshed network of contours holds the scene together and brings it close to Jean Dubuffet’s L’Hourloupe, where figure and ground continually switch.

Building on this, Németh employs an Art Brut vocabulary: mask-like, primitively simplified faces, impulsive serial brushstrokes and a labyrinth of outlines that renders eroticism not anatomically but as a collective, corporeal rhythm. The deliberate reduction to simple, almost archaic forms turns the figures into signs.

Erotic in Blue positions itself between Neo-Expressionism and Art Brut, between archaic signhood and modern form, replacing a single point of focus with a contour network that compels a searching gaze.