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)
Péter MOLNÁR (1943) Born in Budapest, he studied at the School of Fine and Applied Art in Budapest under Miklós Göllner, Lajos Barta and Endre Bálint. As an active painter and graphic artist, he also designs book covers and does book illustration. A Munkácsy prize winner, he has also studied abroad in Paris, Florence, Britain and United States. What initially started as an experiment in building up images from small letters has, since 1979, become an important mode of expression. These watercolours and pencil drawings produced from greatly reduced pictorial elements, are dependent on a long period of gestation, which lends them a spiritual depth. His work is characterised by a restricted palette, a stock of reoccurring motifs (roads, pathways, the moon, pebbles) and a consistent, almost timeless, technique. Eger Watercolour Biennial prize winner in 1998 and 2000 László MOLNÁR (1941) Born in Gyöngyöspata, he lived in Budapest for a longtime, before returning to the village of his birth in 2005. Self-taught, his teacher in Budapest was Sándor Molnár. He became involved in the work of the Zugló Circle in 1962. He has visited many countries during the course of his study tours. At the beginning of his career he was much influenced by French lyrical abstraction. During the 1970s he started to show an interest in combining figurative and non-figurative approaches, two standpoints he didn't deem to be mutually exclusive. In his works he emphasises the associative powers offered by abstract forms, as well as the abstract possibilities lying within the form and colour of forms and objects. This reciprocality lies at the heart of his work. Csaba PÁL (1967) He studied applied graphics and typography at the Hungarian College of the Applied Art between 1988 and 1993, studying painting at the Hungarian College of Art in 1991. In 1993 he completed his masters at the latter, having studied under Dóra Maurer. After leaving college he produced installations, characterised by a logical, geometrical and linguistic-semantic approach. His works remind one of the equipment used for chemical and technical experiments. His manner of thinking leads to a kind of conceptualism during which notions and concepts are ordered and modelled. In his installations he uses anything, from wood to plastic to alphabetti spaghetti. His reduced palette and limited choice of forms are to be found in his installations as well as in his paintings and graphics. Eger Watercolour Biennial prizewinner in 1998 and 2002 Gábor ROSKÓ0958) Born in Budapest, where he continues to live. He studied graphics at the Hungarian College of Art (1977-80) under Károly Raszler and Ignác Kokas, and is a Munkácsy prizewinner. He created a very individual style, built on a mild irony and a surrealistic way of looking at the world, showing a tendency towards the absurd and the grotesque. It is a spontaneous and innovative approach in which he is able to express a feeling of compassion to that which is around him. Since 1990 the watercolour has become one of his favoured media, as has the making of clay figures 119 1 I
