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)
taking the form of anthropomorphic machines and musically accompanied performance art. The formal world of his most recent oil paintings refer to the intertwining geometric decoration found in Irish-Celtic Gospels. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1986. Lajos SEJBEN (1957) Born in Kistelek, he didn't start his career as an artist until later, having graduated from the College of Engineering and Automatization in Kecskemét. He became involved in the visual arts at the beginning of the 1990s. He is a member of the Hungarian Artists' Association and the Fine and Applied Arts Association. Since 1999 he has been a member of the International Paper Art Society, as his work features the use of different textured papers. He started his career with informal oil paintings, which adopted an approach not dissimilar to that of Jean Dubuffet. His interest at different stages in his career in the more destructive elements of the Modern Movement occasionally took him into the spontaneous creation of abstract formal rhythms, and an interest in the accident as part of the creative process. It is difficult to apply terms such as cabinet painting, graphics or sculpture to his artistic milieu, as his work involves the fashioning or refashioning of found or created objects. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1998 Lajos SÍRÓ (1964) Born in Hajdúnánás. He is a member of the Hungarian Artists' Association (1994), the Hungarian Photographers' Association (1995) and the Hungarian Graphic Artists' Association (1999), and has been exhibiting since 1994. He uses his photography for purely artistic ends: handling the delicate grey tones of the photographic paper in the same way as the shading on an inked-up copperplate or the uneven surface of a lithograph. It is an approach he also applies to the treatment of abstract forms in his watercolours, in the choice of topic, the tones used and the way the surface is handled. There is no room for experimentation in his work. What one sees is the result of careful consideration, and the desire to produce works of lasting pictorial significance. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1998 Péter STEFANOVITS (1947) Born in Budapest, where he also lives today. He studied at the Hungarian College of Art (1977-80) under Károly Raszler and Tibor Rozanits. A Munkácsy prize winner, his mode of expression occupies the area lying somewhere between the classical and the neo-avant-garde, which finds its true expression in his graphics, drawings, paintings and installations. His early work belongs to the surrealistic tradition. Subsequently his works became filled with a range of ambiguous motifs (human-trees, branch figures, enigmatic objects) which had by the end of the 1980s also benefitted from newly discovered colour symbolism. His art is not without its grotesqueness and irony. He also does stage designs, which means that reliefs and land art are not entirely foreign to him. Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in 1986,1994 and 1996 120
