GROUP EXHIBITION of the 2nd and 3rd places at the XIV. The Talent Fine Arts competition PAINTING and COMPOSITE GRAPHICS category

May 26 – June 26. 2023

The exhibition can be viewed free of charge on weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You can book in advance by calling +36 1 347 0803.

Location: Bakelit Multi Art Center

Opening: May 26. 2023 at 19.00

Guest performance by Klezmerész Ensemble

www.thetalent.hu // www.bmac.hu 

Originally called Without a Diploma and later called The Talent, the competition and exhibition series and movement, created by the Bakelit Multi Art Center Foundation, aims to create a development and presentation opportunity for talented visual and industrial artists, as well as a market. In addition, they consider it important that artistic and historical traditions are passed on at a high level and that creative work is encouraged.

Their mission is to promote and support the desire to create as many people as possible, and they also want to encourage both creators and observers to observe nature and thus think.

We are happy to introduce…

JÓZSEF GYŐZŐ BLAHÓ 

I am 69 years old. My whole life has been accompanied by an unquenchable love and admiration for fine arts.

My art is reality and fantasy translated into the language of lines and shapes. For me, creation is nothing but a form of self-expression, turning a feeling, a memory, an idea, a moment into an image.

I was born in Heves, I live in Budapest. I am married, I have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. I worked as a carpenter, now as a pensioner I can finally devote all my energy to what has always occupied me the most, but until now it only appeared as a hobby in my life.

I have mastered the learnable secrets of fine art in various art groups. Among these, I would highlight FIAK in Eger. I went there between 1973-76, my teachers were Zoltán Katona and Tibor Dohnál. I received a lot of professional knowledge, spirituality and inspiration from them during these years. For half a year, I was a student of the drawing and mathematics faculty at the Teacher Training College in Eger. After getting to Budapest, I attended ‘Dési’ art group for a while.

Exhibitions and presentations:

• 1978  MMK Eger FIAK group exhibition

• 2003  Józsefvárosi Gallery, solo exhibition

• 2007  BMK, group exhibition

• 2010  Játékszín, solo exhibition

• 2010 – 14  Nekünk nyolc (literary magazine), independent graphics

• 2011 Circle of Small Graphics Friends, introductory exhibition

• 2014 Finger of Kratylos (Gyula Miszlai) – illustration for a book of poems

• 2014 Zsámbék, group exhibition

• 2014 Józsefváros Parish, individual exhibition

• 2016 Gyulai artist colony, group exhibition

• 2022 XIV. The Talent, group exhibition

ZSUZSANNA KOVÁCS 

“I am an artist born in Szarvas and living in Solymár. With a degree in economics and professional experience in public procurement, I came from quite a distance and, unfortunately, not too long ago. I started drawing and painting only 12 years ago.

The subject and technique of my paintings and drawings have changed a lot over the years. In the beginning, I tried graphite and pastel, but after a short time I started using oil, tempera, watercolor, but most often acrylic. I love the potential of charcoal and collage more and more, and among the graphic techniques, monotype is particularly exciting for me. I paint still lifes, portraits, landscapes, I am attracted by the abstract approach to traditional subjects and the use of mixed techniques.

I have been participating in group exhibitions since 2011. These are mostly introductory opportunities organized at the end of painting courses and creative camps in Hungary and Croatia; and Bakelit Multi Art Center tenders, Szarvas exhibitions.”

IRÉN LŐRINCZ

I was born in 1975 and have lived in Gyál since then. Most of my days are filled with time and attention devoted to my children and my work which I do in a joint venture with my mother. Drawing has been important in my life since childhood. At first I worked with pencil, charcoal and ink. After a longer break, in 2001, under the guidance of my former art teacher Magyar József I was given the opportunity to make painting not only part of my thoughts but part of my everyday life. This is where I got to know pastel chalk. I have used this technique for nearly 20 years. In recent years I have also tried other tools thanks to the guidance of Atlasz Gábor. Every topic is close to me, it can be a landscape, a building, people or an object. I have the opportunity to develop and create by participating in a creative camp (Mártély, Zánka, Szentbékkálla) or art course (in Bakelit Multi Art Center – The Talent fine arts workshop), where art teachers like Magyar József, Szigeti Márta, Bányai Béla and Atlasz Gábor help me advance in my painting.

My goal is to learn, learn and learn so that the tool – which is in my hand and in my soul – can show the reality I perceive.

since 2018 Participation in tenders and exhibitions at the Painter Gallery

since 2015 I became a member and exhibitor of the Alföldi Képzőművészeti Szabad Szalon

since 2014 I am a member of The Talent art workshop

2011 – 2022 Successful participation in the fine arts competitions at the Bakelit Multi Art Center

2009 I had the opportunity to have a joint exhibition with László Csuhaj at the Union Gallery in Budapest

since 2008 I became a member and creator of the Art Camp in Mártély

2005, 2008, 2011 Amateur exhibition called „Amatőr Atrium” National Art and Applied Arts Exhibition – I sent several works to the competition, which is organized every 3 years in Pest County, and each time my works were included in the exhibition material

2003 I became a member of the art association in Gyál and I participate in the Winter Exhibition every year where I have already won several awards

2001 Magyar József’s fine arts workshop

RÉKA PURGEL 

“Although I was interested in graphics during my elementary school and high school years, I only started painting in 2019, when I enrolled in the painting course at the Jaschik Álmos Vocational High School of Arts. At that time, in my freely set still lifes, the “folk” theme usually came to the fore through the objects, so I would like to present these exercises, “etudes” now. My award-winning artwork entitled “Abel” also depicts the countryside and tranquility while working through inner tension and drama by finding inner peace in a dream.

In part, this competition inspired me to choose ink as a technique again. Although it requires considerable time, patience and precision, I feel that with the help of this I can improve in the representation, while I want to convey the duality of light and shadow. I work on larger ink pictures that depict people, and the environment in which I place them is also the countryside. In the future, I plan to show the inner tension and social issues through paintings, prints and graphics, as this is extremely exciting and challenging for me.

The group exhibition in May fills me with excitement, as I can present works that are similar in theme, but I have not yet been able to show them together.”