Nature, Man, Responsibility – the paintings of Igor Eugen Prokop

Every year, Art Market Magazine publishes its prestigious Gold List, in which artists are recognized by a high-ranking jury for outstanding achievements. The Hungarian painter Igor Eugen Prokop, who participates in the Art.Salon artist program, has already been included in the Gold List three times. Now Art Market Magazine has published an extensive article about the artist, who draws on his wide-ranging expertise and his love of nature. Prokop is a trained dental technician and studied biology and philosophy, to name just a few areas. In his multi-layered, mosaic-like paintings, he explores human behavior and misbehavior as well as man's place in the complex system of nature, in which everything is interconnected and influences each other.

The magazine article presents selected works and deep insights into the painter's experiences and convictions. His insatiable curiosity is both the reason for his exploration of the most diverse specialist areas and for his travels to all parts of the world. The journeys have the character of study trips, with Prokop carefully observing the landscapes and other cultures. »As time passed during my trips, I experienced that all this was perishing. I do not want my children, my students, and the explorers of the future to be unable to see this magic. I am presenting some fragments from the endless world and giving them to the spectators with love,« the artist explains.

The paintings discussed include THE LAST FOXTANGO WITH EQUUS GALLUS HIPPOPOTAMUS (2025), Devil's Spiral (2024) and Los Caprichos, The Age of Disclosure (2025), three powerful, current works with different emphases. The first takes us into the complex world of animal symbolism. Prokop links animal attributes with human character traits and develops an image of the conflict-laden encounter between human culture and the natural world. Devil's Spiral symbolizes constant change and the cycle of life, characterized by a certain self-destruction of man and hope for the good, while in Los Caprichos, The Age of Disclosure the artist transfers Francesco de Goya's famous socio-critical series to the present day.

The Art Market Magazine article was published in issue #103 in April 2025 under the title Highlighting Society's General Shortcomings.