A small addition to the previous post, Hemispheres. The airline company didn't pay me with money, but offered a first-class plane ticket to a place I chose by poking at the globe. I chose the place shown in the attached photos. But where was I exactly 30 years ago, in 1996?
2026. július 18., szombat
30 YEARS AGO
A small addition to the previous post, Hemispheres. The airline company didn't pay me with money, but offered a first-class plane ticket to a place I chose by poking at the globe. I chose the place shown in the attached photos. But where was I exactly 30 years ago, in 1996?
2025. május 15., csütörtök
SPQR - OPTICAL ILLUSION
SPQR an initialism for Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and People of Rome) is an emblematic phrase referring to the government of the Roman Republic. The inscription can still be seen in many places in Rome today as well. Among other things, on the covers of the manholes. I even took a photo of one. Here it is, upside down. When I turn the picture over, a special optical illusion appears. The prominent positive shapes of the picture change into recessed negative shapes. The phenomenon follows from the knowledge that light mostly comes from above. Learned knowledge, but perhaps more inherited knowledge. "Lux desuper venit" Mistical, isn't it!?
2024. március 1., péntek
TOLERANCE POSTERS IN BERLIN
The Tolerance Poster Show opened at the Deutsche Bahn train station in Plauen, Germany. This show will be displayed for at least one year, and they will change some of the posters approximately every 2-3 months to refresh the show.
2023. október 6., péntek
WOMEN - LIFE - FREEDOM
The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel peace prize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the committee said in its citation.
Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty and an improvement of prison conditions inside Iran.
The award will be viewed as a tribute to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran that rocked the clerical establishment last year, but has been suppressed with many activists either killed or in jail.
2022. december 27., kedd
EXHIBITION IN BISHKEK
В Бишкеке открылась выставка венгерского художника Ороса Иштвана
This means that my traveling exhibition has arrived in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The opening ceremony was held on December 13 at the International University of Kyrgyzstan. I wasn't there at the opening. I know from Péter Szederkényi, the organizer, that about 100-120 people attended the opening and someone recited my poem "Ima" in Russian.
2022. december 23., péntek
SERENDIPITY ?
I just came across these photos. Serendipity? They were made in the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, if I remember correctly, in 2006. The quote painted on the wall appears to be a paraphrase of the Bible, although some say it comes from George Whitman, the store's former owner. "BE NOT INHOSPITABLE TO STRANGERS LEST THEY BE ANGELS IN DISGUISE" I do not know. In any case, with these pictures and this quote, I wish the readers of the Utisz Blog a blessed Christmas and a happy new year.
2022. július 9., szombat
R.I.P. ABE SHINZO
Tegnap lelőtték Abe Shinzo volt japán miniszterelnököt. Két évvel ezelőtt egészségügyi okokra hivatkozva átadta a kormányzást, de így is a szigetország leghosszabb ideig hivatalban lévő kormányfője volt. 2019 decemberében találkoztunk. Tokióban a Magyar Intézetet a kiállításommal nyitották meg, volt ugyanekkor egy fontosabb tárlat is, a Nemzeti Galéria gyűjteményéből rendezett válogatást a Japán Szépművészeti Múzeum mutatta be. A kiállításokat a két ország diplomáciai kapcsolatfelvételének 150. évfordulója alkalmából rendezték, amelyen Orbán vezetésével magyar delegáció is részt vett. Az ünnepélyes záró vacsorára én is mehettem, a legendás karmester, Kobajasi Kenicsiro asztalánál kaptam helyet. A vacsora végén a potentátok távoztak, majd mi, többiek is szedelőzködtünk. A kijárat felé baktatva azt vettük észre, hogy egy lépcső tövében ott áll egyedül, mosolyogva Abe Shinzo, és minden távozót magához int, hogy közös fényképet készíttessen vele. Gondolom, ez japán szokás lehet, s az is, ahogy a vakuvillanás után hajlongva megköszönte, hogy közös fotón szerepeltem vele. Zavarban voltam, s most sincs másként. Rest in peace - nyugodj békében Shinzo Abe.


















































