Retrospection - 2025

I start this retrospection with a February exhibition held in Shoreditch under the title London Contemporary. The reason for this start is the fact that my pictures presented there is unfortunately not les timely at all.

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The title of this picture is Battlefield: yesterday. today! tomorrow? and it is my own protest against the wars of our time.

And here are some photos made on the opening event together with our Hungarian and English friends:

I made my picture titled For Whom the Bell Tolls – 2022 as a protest against the war in Ukraine and feeling the pain and the defencelessness of the war refugees. This happened, unfortunately, several years ago already.

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I presented the picture here in my newsletter on the 52th day of the war and now we are approaching the end of the fourth year already.

To end this topic, I wish my picture titled Let there be Peace! made in 2021 would offer some hope to every one of us. Visiting Rome on the occasion of my exhibition held on the Hungarian Academy we had the opportunity to see art of different ages. I wondered seeing how big importance was given to pigeons in earlier ages. In the Early Christian pictorialness pigeon symbolized soul while nowadays we think of pigeons as symbols of peace. These thoughts gave me the idea to make this picture.

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Coming back to the events of the year let me write some words about my exhibition organized in the frames of the 21st European Horticulture and Art of Garden Show in the Karolyi Castle in Fehervarcsurgo.

Being gests of the Karolyi family, we had the opportunity to meet Regina Dietzold who came from Germany as a member of the broader family. I took to this exhibition pictures directly connected to nature. My picture SOS Nature became to be Regina’s favourite. Regina deals also with disabled people and when she returned home from the exhibition wrote an article about me in the paper of the Bremen based Martinsclub, in Das Magasin vom Martinsclub. The article was written in German but I think its title is easy to understand for everyone: Major Art Pieces made of Small Pieces of Paper:

Visitors had the opportunity to see my pictures this year also in Szolnok, Debrecen, Berettyoujfalu and also in Budapest. W have got many experiences in this special year. the year of the 10th anniversary of my first picture was made by stamps. At that time, I did not know what name Peter Antal the famous art collector would give to the special technique I use, which is painting with stamps.

People many times ask me on the exhibitions what kind of art was what I did? Was in mosaic? Or collage? Maybe montage? So I have found a special expression MoCoMo Art by Stamps which is the title of a picture in the same time:

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When I entered art on my own, I wished to offer some joy to my daughter. It did not come into my mind that I would have the opportunity to bring joy to many thousands of people in countries like Great-Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Tomania, Slovakia, and Ireland. And not least at all let my mention China also where more then one million people saw my exhibitions.

I would like to say thanks to many people for the support during these ten years: to my close and broader family, to stamp collectors, visitors of my exhibitions, readers of my newsletter and those who believed in me. I would like to thank this support with a picture which we can exhibit never more as the forwarding company UPS lost it somewhere halfway between of London and Dublin.

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My picture Hope was made during the covid epidemic and presents Archangel Michael atop the Castel Sant’ Angelo in Rome sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the plague of 590, the evil of those times.

Let me wish with these thoughts a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to every kind reader of my newsletter and very good health as well!