Istvan Horkay
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István Horkay (born December 25, 1945, in
Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...
) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker,
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, member of the HEAA Hungarian Electrographic Art Association
After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1964, Horkay was invited to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow -Poland, one of the Major Art and Cultural Centers of Eastern Europe, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1968) and did additional Post graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. (1971) Horkay studied under the Internationally known Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor as well as Professors M. Wejman, J. Nowosielski, and
Palle Nielsen Palle Louis Nielsen (8 August 1920 – 5 September 2000) was a Danish illustrator and graphic artist. Considered to be one of the masters of his times, his works include drawings, watercolours, woodcuts and linocuts. Biography Born in Copenha ...
, Danmark. He received Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation.
He is member of the Alliance Graphique International (AGI), Hungarian Electrographic Art Association. Horkay's art is epitomic in the double meaning of the word: a fragment, an incised part of something already in existence, and - just because of this incision - is an injury to the finished surface, to the tangle of writing or a finished picture. This relies on the experience that man, handing himself down through signs, simulates a kind of sense-wholeness. In these series this textual sense-wholeness appears to be ever different as different colors enter the surface at different sites. It is the same and not the same at the same time. "Once the signs are scars, then the wounds will tell tales of some non-alleviated history" (D. Kamper - Zur Soziologie der Imagination Hanser V. 1986. p. 148). The sign will temporarily closen over the story. Who else would know this better than
Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts i ...
, who, after the neurological-physiological and neuropsychical phases, so deeply doubted that it was possible "to bring to light the hidden content in its wholeness" (Konstruktionen in der Analyse 1937. in: Stud. Ausgabe Ergb. Fischer V. 1982. p. 398). Béla Bacsó


Exhibitions

*2002 American Fine Art Editions Inc/Scottsdale *2002 Magyar Intézet, Moszkva *2002 Gallery of Art Eastern Washington University *2002 Kamiyamada /Japan/ *2003
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/Australia *2012 Vision in Motion/Melbourne Australia *2012 Vision in Motion II./ Roma/ Sapienza - Università di Roma/ Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma *2012 The One Thing / Manning Clark House/ Canberra /Australia *2012 The Little Mermaid / ANU Art Gallery /Canberra/Australia *2013 Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma *2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale/Australia *2013 A Virtual Memorial Vilnius *2014 Brenda May Gallery Sydney Australia/Head On Photo Festival *2014 Roma/Ara Pacis Museum/ MashRome Film Fest *2014 Salone delle Bandiere del Comune di Messina *2014 Shanghai Teyou Culture Communication Co/China *2015 Li AN Cultural development Co Shanghai / China *2016 Léna Roselli Galéria Budapest *2016 MANK Galéria Szentendre *2016 Shenzhen OCT Loft- Manufacturing culture space / China *2017 Accademia di Belle Arti - Sassari /Sardegna *2018 Warsaw International Poster Biennale *2019 Accademia di Belle Arti/Cyberzone/Palermo/Sicily *2019 KAFF Kecskemét *2019 Pradita Institute/Singapore/Jakarta/Indonesia


References


External links


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- Horkay's website
The Little Marmaid
work with Peter Greenaway
Posters
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