Réka Szabó and József Fülöp will open an exhibition with the above title on Thursday, September 10, 2015, from 6 pm in the gallery of the Szekler Museum of Ciuc, at Kossuth Street. The exhibition will be opened by Eszter Túros, art historian.

Réka Szabó, who was born in Lăzarea, is perhaps less well known, as she recently finished her master studies in Oradea in 2013, and has not yet had a solo exhibition here, although we have already had the opportunity to see some of her work at exhibitions.  This time we can get an insight into Réka Szabó's creative activity. She will also show us her master's thesis, a beautifully executed artist's book of Imre Madách's The Tragedy of Man.  Also on display are prints, mostly documents of installations made during the art camps Réka attended.  The artist's book is a visual and material manifestation of The Tragedy of Man, which, by contemplating it, by recalling the literary work, and at the same time by being guided by the very sensitive visual and graphic events, we become characters, story-shaping figures of the great human adventure.

Réka Szabó's site-specific works can be admired in photographs. Nature is not only the subject of these works, but also an integral part of them. Thinking about nature is done in nature, by nature, sometimes resulting in dramatic effects, at other times panning very delicate shades and tones.

József Fülöp's works have been shown at several exhibitions, but the artist from Miercurea Ciuc is always careful to present new works, as he is showing us his latest ones. We have seen his paintings with strong colours, loose constructions, strange figures resembling aliens or robotic creatures, and his no less bizarre works based on the play of grey shades, often reinforced or counterpointed by captions, or self-reflections or "situation reports" of painfully grotesque figures that operate as graphic backgrounds on the text surfaces of various catalogues and newspapers. This time, the background fades away, the texts, words and fragments of words are replaced by a neutral graphite background, but the figures seem to be familiar. József Fülöp draws inspiration for his latest works from his immediate surroundings, from a gesture or a caught moment. At first glance, one might think that we are looking at fantasy figures, imaginary portraits, ink drawings, humanoid yet not really human figures. But they are very real.

Eszter Túros