LeVall Gallery, Novosibirsk RUSSIA
One-person exhibition of Istvan Horkay, Hungary
May 2-15, 2003

http://www.levallgallery.com/Exhibitions/2003/IHorkay/index.html

This is the next exhibition dedicated to Computer art at LeVall Gallery

"We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality."
- Peter Greenaway said.

Istvan Horkay biuld his UNREALITY using different items such as images of 
paintings by world famous artist, old photographs,texts, signatures etc.
Getting education in Art Academies of Budapest, Hungary; Cracow, Poland
and Copenhagen, Denmark. Istvan Horkay worked many years in traditional
manner. About 10 years ago he switched to Computer Art. His works full of
European and North American traditions in art both of previous and modern
ages.

Horkay's "Museum Factory" series combines original drawn and painted images,
appropriated masterpieces, photographs, artists' signatures and commercial
logos. These elements are digitally assembled, i.e., collaged, to create a
single, layered moment reflecting different places and times. This work is
post pop, i.e., post modern pop art. Whereas Warhol took moments from popular
culture and turned them into history, Horkay takes history and turns it into
a moment, as though the past millennium was a monolithic unit of time.
The newest  Collages, Photo-Transformations of Horkay, in a certain regard
are  the continuation of the previously established visual formatting and
creating methods. This are not simple extract ions, or not only the
verifications of his knowledge to select from the wide tradition of visual
art, but a selection for a purpose.  In the newest visual theory research
there is a higher emphasis on analyzing image anthropology.

Curator of exhibition
Andrey Martynov
LeVall Gallery, Novosibirsk RUSSIA
http://www.levallgallery.com