ISTVÁN HORKAY: POSTERS – DIGITAL NEW WORLD

Opening: 19 June, Wednesday 5:00 pm, Hírös Agora / Room Nr. 100

Opening speech by: István Orosz graphic artist, animation film director

Open for the duration of the festival: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.
On 22 June, the Night of Museums the exhibition will be open until midnight.

 

István HORKAY was born in 1945, Budapest. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Krakow (ASP), at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at the Masters' Training Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1972. Since the 1970s, he is a regularly exhibiting artist. His particular graphics, collages, photo transcripts and experimental motion pictures have been associated with postmodern imaging.

His works were introduced in several greater cities, including Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing, Shanghai, and Los Angeles. He has worked as a designer in several films by Peter Greenaway, and they had a joint exhibition in Canberra, Australia (The Little Mermaid, ANU Art Gallery, 2012).

He is a member of Hungarian Poster Society, and  AGI - Alliance Graphique International, an organization of the best applied arts professionals in the world. Member of the Hungarian Film Academy, and a Non Academic Member of the Hungarian Art Academy (MMA). His awards include the Sicily Art Career Award (the Corona d’alloro Alla Carriera Artistica Regione, Sicilia 2010); and the Príma Award at Prima Primissima Annual Cultural and Art Ceremony (2017). He won the Grand Prix of the National Graphic Biennale at Békécsaba (2014, 2018); and also received the Grand Prix of International Digital Triennale Szekszárd (2018).

His independent animations: Five Folk Tales, Life of our Lord, The Little Mermaid, Raoul Wallenberg, Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros (a film with István Orosz) Emlékzaj, Seven song for Dezső Tandori’s poems, A memory of a winter twilight – Animation for Kurtág’s pieces.