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Newsletter #21 - October, 2001 Beata Szechy, M. Christina Nevin, Hilary Scott Kitka, Kaleta Doolin, Valeria Jones, Judit Makranczy, Dr. Laszlo Takacs
* Please take the time to read about our events. The HMC mission is to support cultural events and to serve the arts in enlarge. Since its founding, the HMC's mission has grown to support visual, theatrical and musical arts and artists.
* From: "magyarhaz.org" <info@magyarhaz.org> MAGYARHAZ: Scholarship/ Osztondij The Hungarian Arts Club is offering scholarships of up to $2000.00 to students of Hungarian descent pursuing an undergraduate degree in the fine arts. For information please contact DIANE KROLL. (313) 565-3408 or Diane.B.Kroll@lre02.usace.army.mil
1. * The next film screening time will be announced later. We will show the following films: Moscow Square, Moszkva ter (2000), Director, Rendezte: Torok Ferenc Subtitled in English and Portugal (1999), Director, Rendezte: Lukacs Andor Subtitled in English
2. * In the year of 2001 film screenings were at the MAC, 3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX. "Professor Albeit" (AMBAR TANAR UR), and Glamour, Subtitled in English
3. * Beata Szechy's exhibition was held at the Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest entitled as Floppy Flowers, Installation, 26 -July -16 September 2001.
"Life hangs on a fragile and sensitive balance. I would like to express the relationship between nature and technology in this exhibition. I like gardening. I always stood very close to nature having always been of the contrary forces and looking for their balance.
I began to draw comparisons. Comparisons between the life of others and my own. Trying to find the essence, the focus. Kenneth Beittel said in his book of Zen: If someone physically and spiritually knows how to reach the center he will become as hard as diamond, he will even prevail in the eye of the storm.
I think that like everything in life one must choose, and learn that to be successful and complete one must find the equilibrium. Everyone reaches a point in life when the question arises how and where the past had ensured and where to follow in the future."
The Floppy Flowers installation looks to answer these questions. It lies on the floor and awaits the onlooker's reaction.
4. * The Craighead-Green Gallery, (2404 Cedar Springs, Ste. 700, Dallas, TX 75201) is scheduled to open an exhibition with four artists: Beata Szechy, Mary Hood, Theodora Varnay Jones and Nora Powells on February 8. The opening reception is from 6 to 8pm. Please come.
5. * Interesting article in The New York Times, Sunday, August 26, 2001 entitled a Museum Building In the Budapest Style by Andras Szanto. Check it out.
6. * Each year the HMC offers an artists in residency program in Balatonfured at the Ferencsik Janos Music School (Zeneiskola), Hungary. This year 12 artists participated at the residency, 11 from the US and one from Austria. At the end of the residency we organized a closing exhibition for the artists at the school. We got major positive feed back in newspapers, television, radio and from the general public. Out sponsor for this program is the Major of Balatonfured from the year of 2002.
Kultura Naplo, July 25, 2001 (Juhasz) Ten American and one Austrian artists exhibited in the city of Balatonfured at Ferencsik Janos Music School. On the opening Beata Szechy, Director of the Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc., -- explaine that the annually organized artist's residency closing event is an introduction for the invited artists. Georges Le Chevallier, a painter from North Carolina: "The question mark is a symbol with lot of meaning. When I arrived to Hungary I was not sure what I will do here and I was not sure what other people will think about me and my work. The inspiration for my work came from this dilemma." His work entitled as Question Mark. There were many paintings, photographs, drawings, collages and objects on the exhibition. The new artists' residency participants and exhibiting artists were: Langelo Ho, Daniel Atyim, Duc Ly, Angela Baker, Margit Czak, Miwako Kato, Georges Le Chevallier, Melissa Furness, Daniel Burns, Carol LaFayette, Jenine Gehl.
The curator of the show is Aniko Tuboly. Other articles: Balatonfured TV., Uj Balatonfuredi Naplo, Est FM 98.6, Radio
7. * Also, every four/five years we are organizing an exhibition for the participants in Budapest, at the Vizivarosi Gallery. In 2001 the exhibition was held from 28 June - 20 July. The sponsor for this show was the American Embassy, the opening speech was presented by Andrew Somogyi, American Culture Attache.
The exhibiting artists were: Wil Bosbyshell, NC, Sarah Carson, Dallas, TX, Russ La Chanse, Chicago, IL, Cathy J. Deak, Anchorage, Alaska, Goro Hasegawa, London, UK. Michelle Lance, Queens, NY, Allegra Marquart, Baltimore MD, Hilary Mason, New York, NY, J. Mehaffey, Santa Fe, NM, Aleksandr Niestroj, Montreal, Canada, Sally Kim Strom, Newport, OR, Sandra C. Vista, Venice CA, Robin Wassong, Seattle, WA, Wendy White, Savannah, GA, and Ivy Parsons, MA.
Articles, Reviews: Duna TV, Look - Your Agenda for Hungary, Info Radio, Magyar Nemzet, Pesti Est, Pesti Musor July 12-18, 2001, Figyelo.
"Americans with brush" (Judit Redei)
An unusual exhibition surprised the art lovers the summery Budapest at the Vizivarosi Gallery. 14 American and international young artists introduced themselves in the exhibition with their selected works. This kind of exhibit we can see rear in the capital city of Hungary. The Hungarian Multicultural Center works hard to keep and build a stronger relationship between the United States and our country. The center made in the sixth time the opportunity for artists to come and work in Balatonfured at the artists residency and made an opportunity to them to work and meet with others far from their culture and home, where they can share their intuitions in sculptures, paintings and photographs. The selection from their work for the Hungarian public is a very good opportunity to see ourselves from the outsider's eye. The exhibition will be open until July 20th at the Kapas street gallery, please come, it's a unusual exhibit with different technics, different subjects and different concept.
"USA-Balatonfured"
The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc. (HMC) is a non-profit organization. Its principal focus is an international residency program to which artists from around the world are invited. The HMC offers opportunities for the presentation of art from all disciplines and provides an artists residency for young American artists in Balatonfured. On the exhibition the guest artists has introduced with acrylics paintings of the Hungarian landscape as Lake Balaton and Chain-Bridge in Budapest or an installation of Hungary. Most of the works shows the artists own intuitions as animation figures on paintings, use champagne bottle's wire for sculptures or hors droops for objects. At the exhibition Sarah Carson photographs introduced gates, doors, windows. Between the fifteen artists the works of Robin Wassong abstract compositions the strongest. Happy colors, geometric forms based on traditional nonfigurative American art that the artists turned to a new meaning.
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