BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

...of the last year
The Debut Issue of Magic Box (edited by O2 Culture Creative Institution located in Beijing) themed PARADISE, presents more than 200 creations from about 100 artists, designers, illustrators and other professionals of over 30 countries. Every works are printed in individual papers. My work is on the cover of the box (the meaning of the message: "PARADISE is always in the OTHER SIDE"). There is also attached an exquisite booklet which introduces the creators and their works. In 2010 the Institution will organize PARADISE Crossover Creative Exhibition in major cities around China.

The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is a violent, wretched and darkly humorous landscape of the medieval Europe. I’ve read somewhere: "Grimmer-than-Grimm".

Jesse Bullington the author: "We are very much in agreement on the cover being a thing of beauty--I really, really lucked out that Orbit found the artist, Istvan Orosz, to do the cover, which is exactly what I wanted and so much more. I expressed an interest in a woodblock style image, as opposed to a matte landscape background with a couple of generic bearded guys on horses, and they seriously delivered with Orosz, who has a ton of beautiful piece up on his website (though it can take a minute to load)".

Arts et Mathesis Foundation promotes the interest in Mathematics as applied to the creation of fine arts. Ars et Mathesis publishes a magazine, organises meetings and produces a year book. In the last year the book contained the paintings of Monika Buch and my works. Text by Bruno Ernst and Rinus Roelofs.

EMZIN is Ljubljana's independent art centre located in the famous Metelkova dvor. (They are former military barracks of the Yugoslavian Army.) EMZIN has a beautiful magazine focused on the visual arts, primarily on photography, illustration and design. In the last issue (December, 2009) my portfolio was published.

The Coach. Beautifully designed magazine (subtitle: Hungarian Art and Soul Magazine) designed by Németh Csaba Elek. The motto is from Arthur Koestler: "Hungarians are the only people in Europe without racial or linguistic relatives in Europe, therefore they are the loneliest on this continent. This extraordinary Hungarianness perhaps explains the peculiar intensity of their existence... Hopeless solitude feeds their creativity, their desire for achieving, and their hysteria... To be Hungarian is a collective neurosis.” A collection of my artworks were published in the magazine and an essay: Landscapes of Time.
Decoding Design by Maggie Macnab is a new book that features some of my works as well. This is not just a picture book, but a deep look into the symbolic meanings of graphic designs. The book aims to discover the hidden meanings inside common logos and designs. The author Maggie Macnab is a leading graphic designer of the United States and professor of logo design and symbolism as visual literacy at the University of New Mexico.

István Orosz: Lessons on Semblances. Exhibition catalogue, Dom Museum, Pécs. Forewords by Kristóf Fenyvesi (First Lesson: The Eye of the Cyclops) and by György Darvas. The booklet was designed by Dóra.

Magyar művészet - Hungarian Art (Corvina)

István Orosz: The Drawn Time. The book was published by Tiara Press, edited by Katalin Bíró, designed by Attia Molnár, and written by this long list of authors: Margit Ács, Márton Barabás, Amos Cohen, Eszter Dobozi, Bruno Ernst, Shigeo Fukuda, György Haiman, György Kemény, Mihály Kornis, István Lénárt, László Márton, György Mészáros, Gáspár Nagy, Guy d’Obonner, Andrea Orosz, Sándor Reisenbüchler, Zsófia Ruttkay, Doris Schattschneider, Carol Stevens, Marta Sylvestrová, Géza Szőcs, Márton Takáts, Éva M Tóth, András Török, Tibor Wehner. Qua Art - Qua Science. Book about the lectures and exhibitions of Faculty Club of Twente University (2004-2008).Plakatens verden - World of Posters. Catalogue of the New Danish Postermuseum.

Masters of Today - Mot, London.

István Orosz -Vision of Design, Index Book

Masterpieces - Socio-political posters, National Gallery, Ljubljana.

The Wall in My Head - a new anthology of writing and images from the Eastern Bloc.

Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner. Yearbook of the math and art assemble in Atlanta to pay tribute to Martin Gardner.

HAPPY 2010 !

may the worst of 2010 be better than the best of 2009.

NEW POSTS

A message from Iran: Dear designer, http://www.vitrinrooz.com/ is a Global Virtual Exhibition of Graphic Designers, which is currently exhibiting Mr. Istvan Orosz designs, Hungarian poster designer, graphic artist and an animated film maker. Please visit his show in VitrinRooz. (the virtual exhibition is in the first page from 5th of December till 23 of December).

Also the Fooding magazine arrived from Paris. It is the annual guide of the best restaurants in France with my cover and illustrations.

A message from David Macdonald creator of illusions using photography. He calls my attention to his new web site (let me call your attention too!) In this site he shows his own works, and examples of similar works or constructions by other artists too. (Among them my work).

XMAS TRIBAR

Christmas tree – on the basis of the “Tribar”. Homage to Oscar Reuterswärd and Roger Penrose. Most probably the best-known and “simplest” impossible object is the “tribar”.
It has been used so often in the visual arts, design, advertising, and even in fields of psychology, has become such a familiar symbol over the course of the 20th century, that by now it almost does not even enter our minds to inquire into its origin. Scholars generally refer to the unusual triangle as the Penrose Triangle, because it was the later celebrated mathematician Roger Penrose who published it first. In 1956, still a student, Penrose was introduced to the works of Escher at a show in Amsterdam, and under this influence, he began to draw “impossibilities”, and to dissect paradoxes from a mathematical angle. Penrose published the drawing of his triangle in the February 1958 issue of the British Journal of Psychology. Escher made his lithograph entitled Waterfall on the basis of the drawing. Penrose could not have known – moreover, at the time, nor could Escher, that a young man living in Sweden, Oscar Reuterswärd, who had engaged with impossible objects for quite some time; in fact, he had already invented and drawn the “tribar” decades previous. A quotation from Reutersvärd’s letter to Bruno Ernst: “In my Latin class (in 1934), I drew a few versions in the margins of my textbook. I tried to draw 4,5,6,7- and 8-pointed stars as precisely as possible. One day I drew a 6-pointed star, then joined cubes to its sides. I got a surprisingly interesting form. Then I added another 3 cubes, so that I could complete the figure as a triangle. Immediately I realised that what I had before me was a paradox.”

A MATH ARTICLE

Poem and poet from an anamorphic point of view
This is the title of the article published in an American math paper: Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. Abstract. Artists have many sources of ideas, just as they have a favourite medium. In this article, I describe how I used the work of Edgar Allan Poe as the source of inspiration for a mirror anamorphosis. I not only used his poem The Raven but also his essay The Philosophy of Composition to guide my creation process just as he did for the poem.
Keywords: mirror anamorphosis; art with double-meanings; geometry of perspective; visual art and literature; Edgar Allan Poe; The Raven.
You can read the full article in the web here.
My old math teachers in Kecskemét would be surprised. Let me dedicate it to them: Kun Gergelyné, Tóth Imre, Vass Gyula, Sárkány Ernő, Kalmár Sándor... and the first one: Sárika néni, thanks.

EXHIBITION IN SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR

Posters by István Orosz
Székesfehérvár, Szent István Király Múzeum, Rendház, Fő utca 6.
5 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010

POSTER SHOW IN LJUBLJANA