Images of internal emigration
October 9 – November 8, 2024
Godot Gallery
The exhibition will be opened by Imre Bukta and József Szurcsik
After a representative demanded the immediate closure of his exhibition a year ago, and then his social media page was blocked, as well as being removed and banned from other places, drMáriás decided to get on the right path, and like ordinary artists, he no longer paints pictures that show restlessness, anger, are apt to cause indignation and scandal, but those that calm us down, make us think, fill us with valuable thoughts and have a beneficial effect on our sense of beauty.
But what should the painter who went into internal emigration paint? drMáriás created portraits and stories of artistic personalities who themselves were forced into internal or external emigration, or even imprisoned because of their creative activities. Someone who was put in front of a firing squad, but survived, was thrown into prison, while there he wrote the most important work of his life, he philosophized, for which he was driven to a warehouse position, he was a revolutionary, but too revolutionary for the other revolutionaries, he was a citizen, so he refused to live in socialism, a doctor who used his morphine to escape from reality, or the one who was just dreaming sophisticatedly before he was beaten to death because of his origin.
This is how Marquis De Sade, Oscar Wilde, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Sándor Márai, Antal Szerb, Béla Hamvas, Lajos Kassák and others appear in the studios of Csontváry, Rippl-Rónai, Berény, Baselitz, Basquiat, Adami and others.
Just no politics! – we would say, when it turns out that it is everywhere and in everything.
But what should the painter who went into internal emigration paint? drMáriás created portraits and stories of artistic personalities who themselves were forced into internal or external emigration, or even imprisoned because of their creative activities. Someone who was put in front of a firing squad, but survived, was thrown into prison, while there he wrote the most important work of his life, he philosophized, for which he was driven to a warehouse position, he was a revolutionary, but too revolutionary for the other revolutionaries, he was a citizen, so he refused to live in socialism, a doctor who used his morphine to escape from reality, or the one who was just dreaming sophisticatedly before he was beaten to death because of his origin.
This is how Marquis De Sade, Oscar Wilde, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Sándor Márai, Antal Szerb, Béla Hamvas, Lajos Kassák and others appear in the studios of Csontváry, Rippl-Rónai, Berény, Baselitz, Basquiat, Adami and others.
Just no politics! – we would say, when it turns out that it is everywhere and in everything.
(Marquis de Sade tempts the Caged Woman in Rippl-Rónai’s studio, 2024, 140 x 100 cm)