- Dates
- 7 June 2017 – 24 June 2017
- Venue
- Godot Galéria · 1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 11–13.
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Short listing
Szüts Miklós: Tengerpart 56×76, akvarell, papír, 2016
Full exhibition text
Szüts Miklós: Tengerpart 56×76, watercolour, paper, 2016
The weekly **Élet és Irodalom** turns sixty this year.
In conjunction with this occasion, we are organising an exhibition titled TISZTELET AZ ÉS‑NEK, featuring works by visual artists affiliated with the publication, jointly with the Godot Gallery.
Opening: 2017 June 7. Wednesday at 18.
In collaboration with:
Váncsa István
Krisztián Grecsó, László Darvasi, Attila Dóra, saxophone
feLugossy László – Kapcsos ikon kereszttel 15×29, needle joint, oil on cardboard, 1995
Exhibiting artists: Bada Dada Tibor, Fehér László, Fekete Szilvia, feLugossy László, Gaál József, Gerlóczy Sári, Haász István, El Kazovszkij Kondor Béla
Tamás Kopasz, Péter Kovács, Kata Könyv, István Nádler, Róbert Šwierkiewicz, Imre Szemethy, Tamás Szikora, Károly Szikszai, László Szotyory, József Szurcsik, Miklós Szüts, Antal Vásárhelyi, Erzsébet Vojnich
In larger size
El Kazovszkij: Kötéltáncos őrangyallal 80 × 60, oil, tempera, 1994
The handwritten notes written to Péter Esterházy for the book titled *ÉS 1. oldal* are on display at the exhibition.
The exhibition’s curator is Kozák Gábor.
Available to view until June 24 from Tuesday to Friday from 9 to 14 and on Saturday between 10 and 13.
Fehér László: The eternal ÉS‑es 48 × 63, gouache, newspaper paper, 2013
Szikora Tamás: black‑red work 45 × 56, acrylic, pastel, paper, 2008
On the front page of the very first issue of *ÉS* was a work by Béni Ferenczy; on the fifth page a drawing by Gyula Hincz; on the eighth page Ferenc Medgyessy’s *Dancing Woman* appeared, and, in line with the masthead, the *Élet és Irodalom* motto also listed not just Life and Literature but also “Theatre, Art.” At first only the cultural‑political intention was clear: to convince readers that after the revolution’s collapse the intellectual life had returned to a normal rhythm, although uncertainty still reigned over the criteria for selecting visual material. Not long after, the editorial team realised that there was no place for photographs in this magazine; given the limitations of contemporary printing technology, there was little room for paintings either, and the format was best suited to black‑and‑white graphics, such as line drawings, etchings, steel‑cuts and similar works. Later high‑pressure offset replaced the old method; László Nagy was succeeded by András Bán, who in turn was replaced by Károly Szikszai, but the essential nature remained unchanged. *ÉS* is the only – reasonably widely known – press product in which readers encounter the work of the finest contemporary Hungarian graphic artists; this has been the case for sixty years, and, should it remain in our hands, it will continue in the same way.
István Váncsa
Bada Dada Tibor: Posts in my street 27 × 76, oil, pencil, wood panel, 1984
István Nádler: Fb. No. 9. 100 × 70, oil, canvas, 2012