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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About Istvan Horkay
- István Horkay (born December 25, 1945 in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter. After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1964, Horkay was invited to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow -Poland, one of the Major Art and Cultural Centers of Eastern Europe, where he received his Master of Fine Arts.
- He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- (1968) and did additional Post graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.
- (1971) Horkay studied under the Internationally known Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor as well as Professors M.
- Wejman, J.
- Nowosielski, and Palle Nielsen, Danmark.
- He received Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation. He is member of the Alliance Graphique International (AGI) Horkay's art is epitomic in the double meaning of the word: a fragment, an incised part of something already in existence, and - just because of this incision - is an injury to the finished surface, to the tangle of writing or a finished picture.
- This relies on the experience that man, handing himself down through signs, simulates a kind of sense-wholeness.
- In these series this textual sense-wholeness appears to be ever different as different colors enter the surface at different sites.
- It is the same and not the same at the same time.
- "Once the signs are scars, then the wounds will tell tales of some non-alleviated history" (D.
- Kamper - Zur Soziologie der Imagination Hanser V.
- 1986.
- p.
- 148). The sign will temporarily closen over the story.
- Who else would know this better than Freud, who, after the neurological-physiological and neuropsychical phases, so deeply doubted that it was possible "to bring to light the hidden content in its wholeness" (Konstruktionen in der Analyse 1937.
- in: Stud.
- Ausgabe Ergb.
- Fischer V.
- 1982.
- p.
- 398). Béla Bacsó
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