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Margit Szilvitzky

Margit Szilvitzky (1931 – 2018) graduated from the textile and fashion design department of the University of Applied Arts Budapest in 1954. She worked as a fashion designer before beginning to experiment with fabric. 

Following her early artistic period, inspired by the history of clothing, folk art and the neo-secessionist style, Szilvitzky turned to white canvases in the second half of the seventies. It was also during this time that her attention was shifted to the square, and to a methodology of folding that reflects the influence of Josef Albers’s paper studies. 

Spanning five decades, her artistic approach articulated in various media such as drawing, painting and art books as well. Szilvitzky’s serial works and process art pieces, which represented a shift toward minimal and conceptual art, drew her system-seeking attention not only to the examination of the sculptural potential of textiles, but also to the exploration of interrelation of light and shadow. She was a regular participant in international exhibitions of Hungarian fibre art (Aalborg, Helsinki, etc.), and she also took part in several graphic and artists’ book shows.

Image 1: Margit Szilvitzky, Floor Object 1, 1977

Image 2: Margit Szilvitzky, Evidence No. 2, 1976

Image 3: Artist Margit Szilvitzky. Photo by Miklós Sulyok