The show, dubbed The East-European Beatles, features paintings of important politicians ? Leonid Brezhnev, Nicolae Ceausescu, János Kádár and Slobodan Milosevic -- of the communist era.
?They were our Beatles, or rather the most popular, biggest stars of Eastern European,? says drMáriás. ?Where we were, art was not important, just the politicians, so let?s put together a ?best-of? collection of them,? he adds.
In the show, Ceausescu is shown within a painting by Georg Baselitz, Milosevic in the style of Enzo Cucchi, Brezhnev in a work that could come from the hand of Walt Disney and Kádár in a piece that mimics Piet Mondrian.
"Máriás is one of the most popular painters of the Hungarian mid-generation, always provoking and making think, smile and grimace. He has toured with his jazz-punk bank Tudósok (The Scientists) from New York to Moscow, Rostock to Sicily, presenting the funny and grotesque, powerful and painful spleen of East-Europe," The Police Station says on its website.
The show, which can be seen until August 15, is supported with 150,000 forints from Hungary?s National Cultural Fund.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
