IRAN

More than two decades ago, in 2005, I drew the attached illustration to depict the political tension of the time, commissioned by the famous American magazine The Progressive. Now, for some reason, it came to my mind again.

IN PARIS - WITH ESCHER

 

A friend of mine in Paris sent me a message saying that she had seen my work at the major retrospective Escher exhibition at the Monnaie de Paris museum. Alongside the master's works, the exhibition also featured pieces by several artists who can be considered precursors or successors of M. C. Escher. Piranesi was there as a predecessor, Reutersvard as a contemporary, and I was there as a successor with my work Stairs. Since the exhibition, which has been open since November, will only be open until March 1, I had to hurry. I was really surprised by how many people are still interested in Escher today. The gatekeeper threw up his hands: all tickets had been sold in advance. I was forced to admit that I also had something hanging in one of the rooms, so I was lucky enough to get in after all. The Stairs (sometimes also exhibited under the title Time Sights) was transferred to the Paris exhibition from the Maurits Collection in Italy. It seems that I have several pictures in the Maurits Collection, at least according to the information on the Internet. I am also attaching The Corner House. 

AN ALMOST TWENTY-YEAR-OLD POSTER

 

History often repeats itself. Sometimes something similar can happen to graphic designers. In 2006, almost twenty years ago, the art director of the famous magazine The Progressive commissioned me to draw the cover of the magazine, referring to the escalating US-Iran conflict. Later, I also created the idea of ​​Mickey Mouse threatening a lion as a poster. Well, Let me show it  again.

TOLERANCE POSTERS IN NEW YORK

...at the Union Squere.

 

... and at the Times Squere.

PSYCHIATRY NEWSLETTER

Let me boast of the great honor that some of my work has been requested for publication by the editors of the newsletter History of Psychiatry for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). If you click here, you can see the pictures and read about what British psychiatrists are doing these days.

TOLERANCE POSTERS IN VIENNA

I did not write about all the locations where the Tolerance Poster exhibition organized by Mirko Ilic was held. But the current one is at a very close location, in Vienna, and it's a round number, since this is the 170th exhibition of the series that travels around the world. So the Tolerance Poster Show opened at 'designforum Wien' at Museumsplatz will be on exhibition until September 9th, 2023. 

 

 

AGI IN TRIESTE

The AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) congress took place in Trieste between September 18 and 23. It had never been so close to us before, and it had missed two years due to the pandemic, so with Dóra we drove to Trieste in our new car. Once we were there, we visited Miramare, Duino and, of course, we went down to Venice. Thanks to Henning Wagenbreth for the last photo.

 

THE ILLUSTRATION IDEA BOOK

The Illustration Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters by Steven Heller, Gail Anderson. The book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field from across the world. Themes covered include creating characters, symbol and metaphor, illustrated lettering, inventing worlds, and caricature. The result is an instantly accessible, inspiring, and easy to understand guide to illustration using professional techniques.

DÜRER - 550

Master Dürer would now be 550 years old. I can’t stop myself from putting some of my paraphrases here, works inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s works or themes.

A MELANCOLIC POLYHEDRON

I started five years ago and finished in the last day of the last year this Melancholy Memorial Print. In 2014, when I started, the famous print of Albrecht Dürer was just 500 years old. In the original work of Dürer there is a magic square, whose bottom row contains the entries 15 and 14, which together yield the year of creation. I also came up with such a magic square, in my square the numbers 20 and 14 are in the right place. The sum 212 can be found in the rows, columns, diagonals, each of the quadrants, the center four squares, the corner squares, the four outer numbers clockwise from the corners, etc. Actually, there are 86 different combinations of four numbers. You might ask why 212 results? Add the numbers: 2 + 1 + 2 = 5. I've been working on etching for just five years. Ha-ha ... that's a joke, of course. Anyway I've done a lot of things in the meantime, but five years is okay.

The most important motif of the picture, however, is not a number square, but a large stone. A big polyhedron.It seems irregular, but if we look closely, it shows a lot of interesting regularity. The vertices of the polyhedron projected vertically to the ground yield a hexagram, that known as star of David too.

I've done quite a lot of work on this polyhedron. I used it like a quote in some of my pictures, and I've done several graphic paraphrases as well. I also noticed that there is a skull hidden on the porous surface of the stone. Of course, I also examined the object from anamorphic points of view. Also I wrote several studies about it, though they were written in Hungarian. Now here are some pictures - as a reminder that a melancholic year is coming.

POPLAR-GRAPHICS (SZEPEZD, BADACSONY)