Szabolcs. Szabolcs Péter Munkácsy-díjas szobrászművész katalógusa 2002. április 5. - május 1. (Zalaegerszeg, 2002)

- is empty, it is not filled with any material, it is perceptibly, visibly remains wightless. The curvature of the plate of the series of the welding points are extremlsy expressive means. He has treted his figures not only that are made of creased plate in isolation in such a way that he lays stress on details (bearing, gestures, eyes, etc.) the other5s has been simplified marking-like. He has more or less a regular style characterized his period. He bears the inside contents of the work humbly, it influences the momentary modification of his stlyle. Szabolcs always works figurally, perhaps the only exception is Göcsej Tulip of Dísz square. His main theme is the man - so simple to write it - because of it the creativity is so important for him. He understands and tolerates his art fellows show exceed but it is not his way. He wants to find the humanity that can be in the man that cannot be shown in another way. He says it is the only way for him because he is working for the part of the world the cannot be or hardly described with words. He tries to find the essence of existence, he does not try to find the bad, horrible, depressing things. He thinks we can speak about people when we sculpture them, and the main aim of art to answer the questions of life that cannot be answered without the special means of art. His topics is many-sides issued from these things it exceeds to every aspects of human life. We can see the connection between parents and child, childhood, love, fun, tragedy, human caracteristics, faith, old age, death in his art. He can tell us shocking things about the man. Life is the winner in the endless circulation of life and death with him. Theere is no returning on charon barge, but death alwway appears like individual tragedy, while the real sense, beauty of the life is communal, so they can be understood on a higher level. The individual man can fail, die, but the MAN became man, because he could always win and he will win from this time on. For this reason the 'noble' an 'good' living in him gained over the 'wicked' and 'wil'. Because of it the artist refuses to partray everything that is not about the gain of humanism. And this is why Assisi Saint Francis of Szabolcs stands respectfully before the crucifix, and announces that in spite of the fact we are poverty-stricken we have to perform the ideal of life. Péter Szabolcs is contemporary of the classical Hungarian avant-garde generation (Atlorjai, Jovánovics, Konkoly, Nádler, Méhes, Pauer, Szentjóby, etc.) His art career started in 1968-1970 at the same time of the legendary Iparterv-exhibitions on balatonboglár chapel-art exhibition. Nevertheless his career happened radically differently. We could not find the explanation in the basical human or dispostion of difference, since he has restless disposition who always looks for the new things and who revolts against restrictions and conventions. The reason for his different way of development can be double. One of them is the basically different sorrounding of the 'big'-generation because there was no 10