JANE NEAL INTRODUCES FOUR EMERGING HUNGARIAN PAINTERS AT FA PROEJCTS, LONDON
Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horváth, Péter Sudar and Dorottya Szabo are part of a unique generation that knew communism in childhood, witnessed its disintegration during adolescence and experienced Hungary's transition into democracy in early adulthood. Yet while it is possible to find evidence of how such an eventful growing up has shaped and influenced the artists' awareness of the changing world around them (most notably perhaps in Horváth's sensitive, even reverential treatment of the most mundane domestic appliances or tacky ephemera), it is equally possible to see how the weight of Hungary's great imperial past has impressed itself on the minds of its artists, such as in Szabo's strange depictions of heads coupled with images derived from the popular decorative stone work of the imperial period. 
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