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András Lengyel (b. 1952 in Zirc) and Ernő Tolvaly (b. 1947 in Kispest − d. 2008 in Pécs) belonged to the Hungarian neo-avantgarde generation, the Rózsa Cáfé Circle.

The first real video work of Gábor Bódy is about a highly exciting psychological situation from the 1970s, the era of the iron curtain. Bódy and Marcel Odenbach, his friend from Cologne, communicate silently in front of the camera by blowing soap bubbles.

ENDRE TÓT: Artist’s books An artist’s book is a unique or small-edition book created by visual artists, which has spread and established itself as a specific genre of contemporary art since the Fluxus movement.

Tibor Gyenis’ photographs usually record actions that feature himself as main character: the “hobby artist” doing his work against all odds.

Hajnal Németh’s first video work is closely related to her sensually austere photographic works from the late nineties.

Drozdik Orshi’s (1946) series Individual Mythology No.

Tibor Gyenis’ photographs usually record actions that feature himself as main character: the “hobby artist” doing his work against all odds.

In this work Bea Veszely appropriates famous depictions of women from the history of art, or more precisely, their photographic reproductions.

In this work Bea Veszely appropriates famous depictions of women from the history of art, or more precisely, their photographic reproductions.

It was as early as in 1970-71 that Endre Tót radically broke up with painting in a traditional sense and made the first one in the TÓTalJOYS series, an A5 piece of cardboard with a printed text on it: I’m glad that I could have this text printed.

It was in December 1970 that László Lakner read the artistic director of documenta 5, Harald Szeemann’s call for applications to an international exhibition with the title Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten (Questioning Reality – Picture Worlds).

In this work Bea Veszely appropriates famous depictions of women from the history of art, or more precisely, their photographic reproductions.

Tibor Gyenis’ photographs usually record actions that feature himself as main character: the “hobby artist” doing his work against all odds. His art is unaffected by the outside influence of trends and expectations, but at least it is “independent and free” this way.

The work was created during a trip to Istanbul: Lengyel took pictures of the sky on both the European and the Asian sides of the Bosporus. This is the meeting point of two continents that we may think of as two separate cultural units, yet the sky above them remains the same.

„In 1991, I made a manipulated black and white photo series based on a reminiscence of an old ID photo. That photo is from the time before my military service – the late 70s, right before my “bald” existence.