Nadya Hadun and Yan Yeresko in Le Meridien hotel

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Opening speech at Nadya Hadun and Yan Yeresko’s exhibition, December 9, 2010, Le Méridien, Budapest

„The art of Yan and Nadya succeeds at something that many have attempted but few succeed at. They draw upon their local regional cultural roots and blend it with their own personal vision to create a distinctive contemporary voice.

In his works, Yan blends his own provincial elements with the cosmopolitan influences of Rothko’s color fields and Pollack’s action art, but uses them as decorative components to achieve a new objective expression.

 Nadya’s paintings speak of melancholy in the emphatic whispers from the secret lives of the peasant women she portrays. Their faces arrest us with their emotional complexity as they emerge from the abstract turmoil of patterns and symbols. These images bring us to the very threshold of their personal narratives, and leave us curious to uncover what is still un-said.

Nadya and Yan have achieved a synthesis of the personal and the universal, local and cosmopolitan and their triumph is a rare one, for which we should congratulate them.”

Jeff Taylor, arthistorian