VOID is a well-known artist on the Hungarian Street Art scene. In addition to regularly completing outdoor and indoor murals, he also takes on graphic design commissions. His favorite subject is the face and its expressions, which he creatively combines…
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Animation director Katalin SÁRDI’s journey began in childhood with her love of Japanese anime, the Cartoon Network and comic books. In her fanzines, or more precisely, her minizines, she recreated classic fairy tales (e.g., Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty) and…
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The influences of two subcultures, that have since gained a degree of artistic prestige, have had a formative impact on Attila STARK’s work. One is street art, which spread in Hungary around the millennium. STARK and the collective of street…
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László KARÁCSONYI is a true universal artist. He has worked with almost every technique on every scale, from miniature dioramas to life-size installations to murals on the sides of ten-story residential buildings. He seeks new possibilities in every surface and…
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Attila JÁGER is a passionate skateboarder and comic book artist. In the course of his cultural mission, these two fringe genres interact, offering each other themes and surfaces. In his works on skateboards, he incorporates scuffs, scratches and even fractures,…
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The award-winning comic book artist Artúr HARÁNT is no longer inspired by storytelling through images. His evocative, psychedelic paintings and illustrations, composed like tapestries, almost hypnotize viewers. The themes of his exhibited works touch on many aspects of our world…
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Ágnes GAZDAG is not only inspired by the work of great artists (Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya), but also continues their creative traditions with the detail and meticulous execution of her decorative paintings. Her small mammals are presented in theatrical scenes, dressed…
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Zsófia FÁSKERTI’s precisely executed works combine a classical perspective with contemporary irony. Her creations are made to be timeless. However, they may depict the subject at a moment that would have little chance of ever being shown to the public.…
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Domonkos ERHARDT is an animated film director, comic book artist and illustrator. As a teenager, he was drawn to the burgeoning Hungarian comics scene and inspired by the thriving street art and fixie bike courier subculture. He ultimately found his…
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Róbert BORBÁS graduated from MOME with a degree in animation and now works as a graphic designer. Seeing Eddie, Iron Maiden’s mascot, on an album cover during his childhood proved to be a formative experience. At the time of the…
Read more "LOWBROW GOES ON – RÓBERT BORBÁS"The world of folktales at once follows the laws of reality and violates those rules. The stone is heavy, the water flows – but at the same time the dead speak, a horse flies without wings, and evil is only…
Read more "That’s How the Story Goes"The land of folktales simultaneously preserves and reflects the reality at the time: its history, culture, traditions, social structure, value system and beliefs. In folktales transmitted through the oral tradition, the elements referencing reality were always aligned with the experiences…
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