Director of the institute Gyula Dávid said art books have been made only for the past 50 years. The genre was created in the 1960s, the first Hungarian examples are from the 1970s and the first exhibitions were held in the 1980s. The Society of Hungarian Art Book Creators was founded in 1993 and its members have presented their work at international fairs in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Marseille, Leipzig and Korea since.
One of the exhibiting artists, Tibor Pataki, said that art books represent the reinterpretation of the art of bookmaking. His art books bear the forms of landscapes. Another exhibitor, Wanda Szyksznian, uses textile pages. Works by Ilona Árva, Márton Barabás, Rozi Békés, Rozi Bornemissza, István Damó, Csilla Kelecsényi, Ilona Kiss, Balázs Péter Kovács, András Lengyel, György Olajos, Valéria Sóváradi and István Szirányi are also showing in the exhibition.
The curator of the month-long show is Gyula Ernyey, a teacher at the Moholy-Nagy Art Academy in Budapest.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
