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)
in addition to painting he has also turned his hand to graphics, sculpture, tapestry work and glass design. During the 1970s his previously lyrical treatment of traditional realistic themes gave way to the Hungarian folk motifs and stylised and geometric forms of his more recent flatter, more tightly organised and more brightly coloured works. A prize winner at the 1976 Eger Watercolour Biennial József BENES (1936) Born in Jugoslavia, he graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Arts in 1963, and has been living and working in Hungary since 1978. A Munkácsy prize winner, he paints, draws, does graphics, screen prints and book designs. His art is minimalist, understated and nuanced, yet expansive, adopting a bird's eye view. In his works he selects a single motif, enlarges it and works it up in great detail. His large scale works are primarily one-off screen prints, and here the enlargement of the chosen motifs manages to conjure up a feeling of fear, anxiety brought on by an awareness of some impending danger. The intention behind these negative symbols is to show, in a disturbing manner, the human suffering involved in man's feeling of defencelessness, emptiness, fear and anxiety. The effect is heightened by his raw yet refined use of colour, something which comes out especially in his watercolours. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 2000 and 2002 Daniella BIKÁCSI (1943) Following her graduation from the Hungarian College of Art (1969), where she studied under Aurél Bernáth, she focused on painting, and the watercolour in particular. She is a Munkácsy prize winner, and founder member of the Hungarian Watercolour Society, which was established in 1991. Her early pictures were dense fantastic, fairytale landscapes, dreamy and opalescent, populated by strange animals, either in motion or still. More recently the animals have disappeared from her pictorial world to be replaced by human beings, whose life of natural innocence is all but lost in our contemporary world. Although her pictures are the work of human hand, they depict locations from whence life, whether human, animal and botanical, has been banished, awash with derelict buildings or parts of buildings: roofs, wells, staircases. The result is a world expressed in indistinct yet lyrical terms, achieved through subtle treatment and rich colouring, with the result that something is always going on in her paintings. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1976, 1978, 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2000 BORGÓ (1950) Born in Marosvásárhely (Tîrgu Mure§, Romania), where he also completed his studies. He attended the Calvinist Theological College on Kolozsvár (Cluj- Napoca, Romania) between 1973 and 1975, before studying to be a painter and art teacher at the Ion Andreescu Col lege of Art between 1976and 1980. Hehaslived in Hungary since 1986, and is a member of the Túlsó Part (Opposite Shore) and the MAMÜ (Marosvásárhelyi Műhely), a Marosvásárhely workshop which has been based in Budapest since 1991. Working in all the painted media, he also sculpts and
