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)
prize winner, his art is characterised by its complexity and technical variety. He is an experimental artist. The watercolour, graphics, oil painting, charcoal, spray painting, happenings and music are all of equal importance to him. During the 1980s he painted with expressive force and expansive gestures, his pictures acquiring a colourful and textured surface, onto which a new set of black and white symbols were then applied. Since the 1990s he has painted finely textured, charcoaled pictures, among them large-scale watercolours inhabited by cultic elements derived from ancient peoples, in a manner similar to that seen in his performances. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1986 Péter ÚJ HÁZI (1940) Born in Székesfehérvár, he studied at the Hungarian College of Art (1960-66) under Aurél Bernáth and János Kmetty. A painter and graphic artist, he is also a Munkácsy prize winner. By the second half of the 1960s he had already distanced himself from the neo-avant-garde pursuits of the younger artists of his generation. He makes use of the naivity present in graffiti, children's art and cave drawings, and one of the main elements in his rich symbolism is water. Despite their humour and the irony, the vast majority of his diary-like paintings contain an element of melancholy. Apart from his large-scale cabinet paintings he often paints playful, calligraphic line paintings in watercolour, small installation-type box-pictures and models for fictive stage designs. Although abstract his art is accompanied by a certain figurativeness in which the narrative elements are played out in a space almost lacking all gravitation. His paintings embrace ratherthan exclude, extending indefinitely beyond the frames of his pictures. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1976 and 2002 Magdolna VÁNYAI (1957) Born in Nagyrábé, she currently lives in Budapest. She graduated from the György Bessenyei Teacher Training Col lege in Nyíregyháza in 1980, having studied art and mathematics. She completed her studies at the Hungarian College of Art in 1982, and later studied visual communication at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest in 2002. She has taught at the Department of Art and Visual Communication at Károly Eszterházy College in Eger since 2002, and is a member of both the Hungarian Artists’ Association and the Hungarian Watercolour Society. Having exhibited since 1980, her favoured medium is the watercolour, something she practises in its purest sense to create bright translucent colours. Her work is a mixture of geometric abstraction, the lyrical application of colours and a figurativeness based on sensitively expressed characters. Hers is a truly feminine art, from which a profound understanding of human beings radiates. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 2002 András VÉGH (1940) Born in Tolna, he currently lives in Budapest. He graduated from the Hungarian College of Art in 1967, having studied under János Kmetty and Aurél Bernáth. A Munkácsy prize winner, his painterliness and his interest in both realism 123
