Szilasi Ágota, H.: Víz - fény-szín-tér. Stílusvariációk egy technikára. Egri Országos Akvarell Biennálé 1968-2004 a Dobó István Vármúzeum kortárs akvarell gyűjteménye (Eger, 2006)
Zsófia HARMATI (1966) Born in Budapest, she studied at the Hungarian College of Art (1985-89) under Gábor Dienes and Ignács Kokas. She also completed a course in Egyptology at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, and has been a member of the Hungarian Watercolour Society since 1991. She likes to paint shadowy, dark forms, the sharp silhouettes which double up as expressive artistic gestures. Her works are metamorphoses, human-animal-botanical transitions towards abstraction, which despite their multifacedness are frequently essays in solitude. She works in several media, and besides painting she also weaves carpets, prints and draws. Her works, produced as they are on her own hand-made paper, reflect her own very interesting character. István HERCZEG (1949) Born in Sajószentpéter, he has lived in Egersince 1967. Having studied atthe School of Fine and Applied Art (1963-67), he graduated in geography and art from the teacher training college in Eger in 1971. Apart from his painting and graphics, in which he often includes watercolour, he also does applied graphics. In his watercolours he uses light and colour to create an abstract setting he fills with eternal symbols. His art is a deliberate search for the better, for a means of protecting the natural world in what is a period of fear, anxiety, even anger. None of the main current trends in Hungarian art can be found in his work. Instead, his art has ploughed a lonely furrow in the search fortruth. Eger Watercolour Biennial prizewinnerin 1990 Gyula JL)LIUS(1958) He studied graphics under Károly Raszler and Imre Kocsics at the Hungarian College of Art, while also being a regular visitor to the Indigó csoport (Indigo Group). Apart from graphics he is also interested in painting, installations and video art, proving him to be an artist of great versatility. In his early lithographs he managed to amalgamate the banal emblems of socialist realism with his experiments in natural science (magnetism). At the end of the 1980s he changed his chosen medium, and began making abstract and conceptual models, whose metaphorical development led in the direction of arte provera. At the point of conception his works fuse geometrical construction with an expressive intention. István KÁLMÁR(1949) Born in Budapest, he has been exhibiting since 1977. Between 1979 and 1983 he was the head of the Hungarian National Gallery's GYÍK children's art workshop together with István Sinkó. He was also a performer in the Miami Art performance and music initiatives, and a member of an improvisational musical trio. His concerts, which formed part of his exhibitions, included sound sculptures and installations forming part of a single pictorial-musical space. His graphics and paintings refer to an inner world, whose most common occupants, the "angels", manage to communicate with one another through movement. These small and simple beings, usually appearing in twos or threes, are neither the angels we associate with Christianity, nor anything likely to exist in the world we live in. Nevertheless it is possible to recognise which of them are good and which are evil. 115
