Végvári Lajos: Kondor Béla emlékkiállítás a Herman Ottó Múzeum képtárában - Borsodi kiállítás vezetők 3. (Miskolc, 1977)

An exhibition held in commemoration of Béla Kondor

justice and sincerity showing no kind of mercy to anything.

All his life was full of strain and worries that was not ever able to calm down, it was the very intention entangled in itself that never could evade of itself. This vay of living turned inwards was what defined his working system, his creator’s method and aesthetics. He stood up to the canvas or graphic instrument so that he was incandescent with furious tempers, and he was driven by only one great passion: to make order in chaos, to bring to the surface everything that is pure, noble, deliberating, and comforting of cinders of individual life.

For Kondor the work of art was self- salvation, that is why he assigned no importance to questions of style. This statement means by no means that he ever allowed himself to endure the slightest kind of carelessness. On account of his claim for order he greatly admired the ancient masters: he did want to hit the mark as precisely as they had done, so that one should be able to gather from his works of art what it is that he did aim to tell one by them, and so that one should notice as much only of the agony of genesis as he took for necessary to disclose.

Béla Kondor is a peerlessly individual phenomenon of Hungarian visual arts. In consequence of his abundance in ideas, actuality of his conveyance, precisity of his mode of expression his works of art proove to be accessable even for a less erudite spectator. His works are exuberant, tehy never cease to yield someth- ing of new to those, too, who know him,