In the Kossuth Street Gallery of the Szekler Museum of Ciuc, visitors can get a taste of the Baia Mare Landscape Painting Group. The exhibition is open from 2 to 22 June.

"The art of Baia Mare was the most exemplary act of the greatest effort of Hungarian art, which is still alive in our art today" - István Dési Huber.

The number of summer art camps is growing all over Europe. Baia Mare, where a world-famous colony was established and operated at the end of the 19th century, has long been missing this. The establishment of the Baia Mare Artists' Village in Târgu Lăpuș was helped by the fortunate coincidence of two factors: the centenary of the Baia Mare Artists' Village and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Reformed Diocese of Piatra Craiului. On this occasion, in July 1996, we organised the first Târgu Lăpuș Painting Camp with Councillor Mihály Lugosi, on behalf of Bishop László Tőkés.

The aim of running the colony is to cultivate and develop the traditions of painting in Baia Mare and to maintain contacts with Hungarian and other national artists from the Carpathian Basin.

We started our work in Târgu Lăpuș, where we worked for four years, and then moved to Baia Sprie in 2000. As we are getting closer in spirit to our great predecessors, we are also getting closer in physical terms to Baia Mare, as Baia Sprie is only ten kilometres away from the "painting capital". We are returning here because Baia Sprie played a very important role in the history of painting in Baia Mare, inspiring many famous painters with its rich picturesque environment.

Our artistic credo is not to preserve the old school of Baia Mare, but to build on the traditions of the mining area and to use the artistic achievements of the twentieth century 

 to develop it further.

Thus, the works are unified in spirit, but very diverse in style.

Ágoston Véső