Year in Review
- Szendrei Judit
- Mar 29
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 13
We hardly manage to enter new invitations to our calendar but srangely enough there was not any event to happen this March so I try today to give an overview of the previous year which was busy enough.
I am sure that from artistic point of view the major thank was the 10th anniversary of starting to make art. You cab view here a photo from the first year and another from the 10th year:
KThere were even two exhibitions to commemorate this important anniversary: the first was a planned one but the second was brought by the first exhibition as Csaba Kocsis, who performed songs as a member of the group Koromvirag happened to see my pictures first time here. Having them seen he invited my at once to make an exhibition in his city Berettyoujfalu thus when the Debrecen exhibition was closed the pictures were taken at once to the Zoltan Nadanyi Culture House.
Several photos from Debrecen:
There was an interesting feature of the exhibition in Berettyoujfalu. The five yearly meeting of my former class was organized exactly in this period so we viewed my pictures together with my former class mates and remembered our form-master and drawing teacher Gabor Erdely as well.
The third photo of the above ones was made on our class meeting.
I made altogether twenty pieces last year and three of them were made in my mother’s honour. She passed away in the 100th year of her life. The first picture titled Snowfall was made when she was still with us but the mood of the piece might foresee the future.
My mother was always fond of flowers and the garden. She used to go out to cultivate her favourites even when she was 95. This gave me the idea to make when the previous picture was ready another one to present my mother’s flowers on a stamp picture titled My mother's flower garden:
And finally, the picture of remembrance with tulips. We visited Keukenhof the wonderful Dutch flower garden several years ago and took tulip bulbs with us from there. I planted them in the garden to a place well seen from the kitchen as well. Tulip stand for my mother for me and also for my children on this picture titled Tulips remembering to my mother. The intials seen on the picture were sewn by my mother in her childhood.
I feel permanently on my artistic way that my art pieces are being seen as novelty almost by everybody. One of the reasons for this might be the fact that there are most probably less then ten people using old stamps to make art pieces. I have got a ne novelty even and this is the use of embroideries on my pictures. But last year when trying to make some order in hour house we found bakelit discs so a new material appeared in my art. Looking at them I got the sudden idea to use them for making presents to our four grown up sons.
This is one of them in its entirety:
The four pieces were made with the same technique but they are nevertheless unique and personalized. One of the boys favours blue colour, the other has a fiancée who is a musician, the third one has got a newborn baby while the fourth son spent Christmas with his angels.
We shall of course inform you of the coming exhibitions but we can say already for sure even now that having had the Zagreb exhibition we shall commemorate the Day of the Hungarian Culture next January in Ljubljana, Slovenia with my pictures.
To close this newsletter I would like to show you how much the world is interested in my art activity. It was in 2024 when foreign galleries started to contact me among them with such like the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery from New York City lead by Rosie Tucker, the former director of the Guggenheim Museum or with the journalist of the Aatonau Art Blog from Japan who later wrote the best ever article about my art. My pictures have been presented by four different publications. Probably the most prestigious of them is the book Collectors Art Prize – Art Legends of Our Time issued by the London based company Contemporary Art Curator publishing two pictures of mine.
And finally you can see two photos of the awards I have received in the middle of them with the Persona Arts Honour – 2025 received for the unique character of my art.
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