Anita Ernődi is a Hungarian artist and practicing architect and engineer.  She has spent the last decade of her career at the internationally renowned architecture firm OMA, office of Pritzker Prize winner, Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam.  Anita has worked on many of the studio's notable projects including the recently completed Rijnstraat 8, the renovation of a Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Prada Foundation, a museum of the Prada family's private collection in Milan, Italy and Manchester Factory, a cultural and performing arts complex in Manchester, UK which is currently under construction.

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After extensive study and professional practice in design, Anita's began experimenting with ink illustrations about five years ago.

Her collection of prints are based on drawings and Illustrations from her international travels and fascination with geometrical historical sculptures of Bolivia and Peru. The study of these simple geometrical forms is informed by her background as an architect and engineer.  Using a limited the palette of colors and narrow selection of tools, Anita is able to focus her subject, resulting in compact drawings. The use of drypoint prints further limits this palette and pushes the drawings into abstractions of just shapes, forms and textures. The tools function as a distillation process, and these prints might be just one stage of an evolving series. 

 

Anita has a Masters in Architecture and Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest.  Her art works include illustrations for children's books, independent drawings, and a series of prints based on illustrations.