István Horkay (born December 25, , in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, digital artist, member of the HEAA[1]
After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in , Horkay was invited to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow -Poland, one of the Major Art and Cultural Centers of Eastern Europe, where he received his Master of Fine Arts. He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. () and did additional Post graduate work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. () Horkay studied under the Internationally known Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor as well as Professors M. Wejman, J. Nowosielski, and Palle Nielsen, Danmark. He received Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation. He is member of the Alliance Graphique International (AGI), Hungarian Electrographic Art Association.
Horkay's art is epitomic in the double meaning of the word: a fragment, an incised part of something already in existence, and - just because of this incision - is an injury to the finished surface, to the tangle of writing or a finished picture. This relies on the experience that man, handing himself down through signs, simulates a kind of sense-wholeness. In these series this textual sense-wholeness appears to be ever different as different colors enter the surface at different sites. It is the same and not the same at the same time. "Once the signs are scars, then the wounds will tell tales of some non-alleviated history" (D. Kamper - Zur Soziologie der Imagination Hanser V. p.&#;).
The sign will temporarily closen over the story. Who else would know this better than Freud, who, after the neurological-physiological and neuropsychical phases, so deeply doubted that it was possible "to bring to light the hidden content in its wholeness"
(Konstruktionen in der Analyse in: Stud. Ausgabe Ergb. Fischer V. p.&#;).
Béla Bacsó
Exhibitions
American Fine Art Editions Inc/Scottsdale
Magyar Intézet, Moszkva
Gallery of Art Eastern Washington University
Kamiyamada /Japan/
Leslie Sacks Fine Art Los Angeles/Web Exhibition/
Collegium Hungaricum/Berlin/
American Fine Art Editions Inc/Scottsdale
LeVall Art Gallery Novosibirsk/ Russia
Gutman Galery Budapest
GGalery Budapest
Peter Greenaway /Tulse Luper Film There
Canariasmediafest
Ausztralia IDAA
Academy Gallery University of Tasmania
QUT Art Museum Brisbane,
VCA Gallery Australia
Montreal Festival of New Cinema
Belgrade/Closed Circuits/
VCA Gallery University of Melbourne
QUT Art Museum BRISBANE
Beijing Today Art Museum
Beijing Film Academy
New Delhi India CEC+CAC
QUT Art Museum Australia
Metro5 Gallery Australia
Jewish Museum of Australia
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Gallery art6 Richmond/ Virginia
QACI Gallery, Queensland/ Australia
Corona d'alloro alla carriera artistica Europclub Regione Siciliana (Italia) con Ennio Morricone, Giovamna Mulas
Ballarat International Foto Biennale/Australia
Vision in Motion/Melbourne Australia
Vision in Motion II./ Roma/ Sapienza - Università di Roma/ Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma
The One Thing / Manning Clark House/ Canberra /Australia
The Little Mermaid / ANU Art Gallery /Canberra/Australia
Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma
Ballarat International Foto Biennale/Australia
A Virtual Memorial Vilnius
Brenda May Gallery Sydney Australia/Head On Photo Festival
Roma/Ara Pacis Museum/ MashRome Film Fest
Salone delle Bandiere del Comune di Messina
Shanghai Teyou Culture Communication Co/China
Li AN Cultural development Co Shanghai / China
Léna Roselli Galéria Budapest
MANK Galéria Szentendre
Shenzhen OCT Loft- Manufacturing culture space / China
Accademia di Belle Arti - Sassari /Sardegna
Warsaw International Poster Biennale
Accademia di Belle Arti/Cyberzone/Palermo/Sicily
KAFF Kecskemét
Pradita Institute/Singapore/Jakarta/Indonesia
Warsaw International Poster Biennale Tóparti Galéria Révfülöp Bando Art Gallery, Warsaw International Poster Biennale Baekryong Art Center, Chuncheon, Dél-Korea Ausburg University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Design