Noble Art Nexus
Noble Art Nexus Gallery is a contemporary, internationally focused gallery with a primary emphasis on painting. In 2025 we participated in 8 international art fairs in America, Europe and Asia, including Singapore as well as Australia.
For the Art and Antique art fair, Noble Art Nexus Gallery presents a special three-generation selection: the works of the Manajló painting family, from their roots in Subcarpathia to the level of contemporary international art.
The dynasty’s roots go back to the oeuvre of Fedor Manajló, one of the key figures of 20th century Subcarpathian painting and Rusyn fine arts. His works depict the mountain landscape, rural everyday life and folk culture motifs in a characteristic, expressive visual world. For the fair, we are also bringing works from the collection of the Fedor Manaylo Memorial Museum in Uzhhorod, which allows the booth to offer an intimate, chamber-like glimpse into a museum collection.
His son, Ivan Manajló, carries this heritage further while consistently searching for his own painterly language. What most distinguished him from his contemporaries was that he steadfastly followed his own path. He was not satisfied with ready-made styles and thematic directions. He experimented. Many artists committed themselves to a single field, such as landscape, still life, folklore, urban scenes or abstraction. Ivan Manajló tried all of these and translated each of them into his own visual idiom.
As director of the art school founded by the family in Uzhhorod, he shaped the visual thinking of generations. An important strand of his oeuvre is painting related to music: rhythms, moods and inner tensions are translated into colour and composition in his works.
The dynasty’s youngest painter, András Manajló, is also represented with his works. He completed his studies in Saint Petersburg at the Ilya Repin Russian Academy of Arts, then went on to build his career consciously on the international scene.
Today his paintings are held in private and public collections in several countries; among his collectors we find names such as Robert Harris Rothschild and Imre Pákh. His works grow out of the colour and light sensitivity of Subcarpathian Rusyn painting, but culminate in a personal, emotion-based abstract and expressive visual language.
The three generations presented together at the Noble Art Nexus Gallery booth offer not only a visual imprint of a family history, but also an example of how a regional painting tradition can become a narrative that is legible and continued within the contemporary international collecting context.
