Nature Morte is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the gallery’s founding director Peter Nagy.

The works on view are a portfolio of new silkscreens that have been published by Fabjbasaglia Contemporary Art of Rimini, Italy, for the exhibition curated by the New York curator Richard Milazzo entitled “Sailing to Byzantium: Six New York Artists in Venice,” which took place at the Biblioteca della Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Dosoduro, Venice from December 4, 2025 to January 11, 2026. Other artists in the exhibition were Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Vik Muniz, and Walter Robinson.

The silkscreens, produced in Italy in 2022 in an edition of 40 each and averaging 120x120cms each, are reproductions of works Nagy produced between 1983 and 1991, when he lived in New York. All in black and white, they feature works that cover the range of mediums in which he worked: from the earliest works that were photo-copies made in unlimited editions, to works made as enamel-on-metal signs, and acrylic paintings on canvas. As a group, the works illustrate the strategies of graphic design and appropriation that Nagy employed in the 1980s, synthesizing art history, advertising and popular culture, joining images and texts into compositions that are both analytical and ironic. The works reflect a decade in which artists tested the status of representation itself, adopting quotation, seriality, and reproduction as deliberate provocations.

About the Artist

Peter Nagy (born 1959, Bridgeport, CT, USA) was co-founder (along with Alan Belcher) of Gallery Nature Morte in New York's East Village in 1982, where it continued until 1988. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York (1981) with a BFA in Communication Design and Art History, Nagy's art was represented by International With Monument in the East Village and later by Jay Gorney Modern Art in Soho. Solo exhibitions in the latter half of the 1980s happened in Los Angeles (Margo Leavin Gallery), Cologne (Jablonka Galerie), Milan (Studio Guenzani), London (Edward Totah Gallery), and Paris (Galerie Georges-Phillipe and Natalie Vallois) and his works have been included in important group exhibitions in museums including the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Modern in London. His most recent solo exhibition was held at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York in 2020 and he is currently represented by Magenta Plains in New York.
Based in New Delhi, India, since 1992, Nagy resurrected Nature Morte there in 1997, championing young Indian artists and experimental art forms, where it continues today with gallery spaces in New Delhi and Mumbai.