HAPPY SKULL-DAY!

COME TO MOSCOW

OCTOBER 9, 2012, Tuesday
18:00 Opening Ceremony of „Golden Bee” Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design, and opening of The International Jury Members Show (David Carson, Ken Cato, Alain Le Quernec, Istvan Orosz, Paula Troxler, Boris Trofimov) in the Central House of Artists (Moscow, Krymskiy val, 10. Metro Stations Oktyabraskaya, Park Kylturi)

OCTOBER 10, 2012, Wednesday
19:00 The exhibition of István Orosz will take place in the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre. (Moscow, Povarskaya 21. Metro Station Arbatskaya) After the opening ceremony Maral Yakshieva will play piano improvisations on the exhibited pictures.

OCTOBER 12, 2012, Friday
The presentations by the International Jury Members of "Golden Bee" will take place in the Central House of Artists. 11:00–12:00 Boris Trofimov/Russia; 12:00–13:00 István Orosz/Hungary; 13:00–14:00 Paula Troxler/Switzerland; 15:00–16:00 Ken Cato/Australia; 16:00–17:00 Alain Le Quernec/France; 17:00–18:00 David Carson/USA

OCTOBER 12, 2012, Friday
14:00 -16:00: Book presentation in the Moscow State Children Library: Tales by János Pilinszky, translated by Jury Gusev, illustrated by István Orosz. Hungarian Book Illustrations - opening of the exibition by Dóra Keresztes and István Orosz.

OCTOBER 12, 2012, Friday
19:00- 20:00: Lecture by István Orosz and animations by Dóra Keresztes in the British High School of Art and Design (Moscow,10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya St., building 3.)

MARGINALIA ...

Miklós Szentkuthy: Marginalia on Casanova
New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Cover design by István Orosz
More details of the book are here.
You can read some excerpts here.

THREE EXHIBITIONS IN SEPTEMBER

1. Title: Exhibition of István Orosz; theme: wood constructions; location: Sopron, Festőterem, Petőfi tér 8.; dates: 1st – 23rd September.

2. Title: „Vivid Mind” – Exhibition of István Orosz and Lajos Szilassi; theme: geometry; location: Szeged, EDF Gallery, Klauzál tér; dates: 3rd – 25th September.

3. Title: Exhibition of István Orosz; theme: posters; location: Bratislava, Slovak Design Center, Satelit Gallery, Dobrovičova ul. 3. dates: 6 – 30th September.

SUMMER OF POSTERS

The catalogue of the International Poster Triennial in Toyama just arrived. Two of my works are selected. It is the 10th triennial in the The Museum of Modern Art of Toyama, and I participated in all of them. Also three of my works are hanging on the walls of the Willanow Poster Museum in Warszawa, where the International Poster Biennial takes place. Both exhibitions are still opened, so if you hang in the neighbourhood…

By the way, three other important poster events will be in this year, triennial in Trnava (Nagyszombat in Hungarian), biennial in Moscow (Golden Bee) and the 2012 edition of “Poster for tomorrow” online competition.  I was asked to be member of the jury panel in all these three places.

THE ART OF ILLUSION

I just received the recently published book: The Art of Illusion (An Imagine Book published by Charlesbridge). Among others, the works of M. C. Escher, Sandro del Prete, Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Rafal Olbinski, Dick Thermes and Rob Gonsalves are in the collection. Ten of my works are included too. The great puzzle designer and ambigram artist Scott Kim wrote the foreword. Here are two of his explanations:

This sculpture by István Orosz changes appearance depending on where you stand. From one point of view, the black and white lines drawn on the stairs appear to be a man walking down the stairs. From another point of view, the colored areas align to form the legs of a man walking up the stairs.

Here is a lovely drawing of a classic staircase illusion by the versatile István Orosz in which the diagonal lines are alternately interpreted as edges or creases. Note that the stairs are not shaded; all of the dimensional information comes from the shadows and the way people and objects sit on the stairs.

AQUI Y AHORA

For those of you that will be tomorrow in Guadalajara, come and see the „Aqui y Ahora” (Here and Now) poster show in ITESO University. Nine members of the workshop started to work three weeks ago and tomorrow morning we will hang about 20 works in the open-air gallery of the Architecture faculty. Opening ceremony will start at noon. 

 

The title of the posters that we made at the workshop was "Here and now". They often refer to posters by these two words: hic at nunc, here and now, aquí y ahora, itt és most. This means that posters can only fulfill their function at a certain place in a certain time and get outdated very soon. They are not valid at another time or place. Those who are familiar with poster history know that this is not always the case. Posters may become universal independently from time and location - at least good ones. Then it is no more the actual event that is important but the person behind the poster, who makes these works authentic. These pictures leave their original functions behind and the commissioned pieces become autonomous works of art. They get space and other further dimensions, they sublimate. At the workshop the nine participants have designed such posters that reflect on poster design itself and try to interpret the idea of time and space with visual means. 
Let me write the name of the students and colleagues: Enriqe, Diana, Sergio, Hugo, Irma, Diego, Liliana, Ignacio, Fernanda.