Síkban és térben. Oroján István kiállítása (Gyulai katalógusok 5. Gyula, 1998)

Gulyás Gyula: Inaugural address of István Oroján’s exhibition in Arad (Fordította: Vizi Endre)

There have been some schools and groups parallel to him and the geometric abstract constructivists have divided into groups changed even in our country not always to their advantage. The persistence and stubborn lastingness of Orojan makes us not only meditate but is more attractive and respectable for me, it shows a kind of receptivity for quality. The process of changing in form and quality can be observed first in his works of plastic art in the direction of a more organic bioconstructivism. Orojan doesn't want to enforce his view on you. If we are capable for giving eyes and ears to take his recommendation: here you have my own world, the best possible one in experience ingenuity and resource. His modelling is an answer to show in our region the part of painting at the end of the century. He is stimulated by the present day concept of form on its way from past into future but does it not in a speculative way, he wants to reflect the empirically comprehensible view, carefully poising the accessories of the universal European culture living with the problems and relations of our every day life's history. I enjoy watching the world painted by Orojan and keep staying there for I can enrich myself by contemplating an his works. If you are impressionable you can enrich your works. To accept this the painter, our guide gives us no comment of his pictures, gives no titles to them he only introduces us to them. He leads up the viewers showing an interest for them to share his own experiences with them. We are grateful for it. This is the opportunity to congratulate him on his portion, on his self progressing work in an uncompromising way for we could experience his ability to exceed his former character, a talent in our world. We can evidence: something has been realized unobstrosivily, modestly by pertinacious efforts in the immediate vicinity of the Gyula Castle. It is his modest attribute to aim the front-rank instead of compromising and having the appreciation and benefits from groups of friends for commercial interests. Our István Orojan has been leading a recluse life (even as an artist) for 20 years missing the help of academies, colleges, official or independent art historians to find and expose him. He is a special culture sociographical fact among the new kind of ARTISTS, types of commercial interests. Whether they will have the power and the kind of artists Oroján belongs to will only be mentioned in the encyclopedia of arts below the headword: ignored contemporaries. With the change of the regime István Orojan didn't 25