The Hungarian and Romanian photographers have captured a world that doesn't seem to be of this century. The landscape, the villages, even the people, all appear to be ancient. The people live in harmony with nature, their animals and their religion. One sees an image by Silviu Ghetie of a woman in holiday dress cradling a tin crucifix in her arms like a child and another by Attila Molnár of a math teacher instructing his students under a portrait of Christ. The pictures show religion is a part of everyday life as well as holidays in Transylvania.
Art from Romania is on display too at the Millenáris events centre on the other side of the Danube in Buda. "Hay sculptures" by the ethnic Hungarian artist Ernő C. Bartha, who lives in Cluj, Romania, is on display as part of the Our Guest, a Town - Cluj Greets Budapest exhibition. One sees in Bartha's work the same primitive, natural beauty as in the photographs of Transylvania on Szabadság tér.
