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Info about artist Laszlo MoraBorn: Nov 27, 1947 Country of birth: Hungary Currently
lives: Budapest,
Hungary Short
description of place of birth and how childhood was spent (for example
schools, what events have “I was born in Kispest since there was no maternity home in Pestlorinc at that time yet. I went to school in Pestlorinc, but the complex of my studies had only culminated in the acquisition of reading. A few of my brutal teachers, along with my stepfather, were working with equal efforts on the inner and outer shaping of my budding character.” The
particular political or general interest significance of the artist’s
home country or home town: “The
situation of Hungary, since centuries, is similar to that of the grounding
grains between the millstones. It’s time this milling product was valued
at all points of the compass.” The
event that introduced the artist to the arts: “This
event had happened thanks to my mother. Because she didn’t want to give
birth to me (Munchausen Syndrome) she threw herself flat on the rails of a
tramway, when she was 7 months pregnant. To me, art and suffering are
synonyms, thus life brought me close to art (Pestlorinc, Beke ter, Sep
1947).” Formal
training in the arts: “I
was just drying myself on the sun-terrace of a lido when I endured the
first work of art of my life, from my own swimming trunks. Since the fact
was a shocking experience to me that merely with my bottom I created
fantastic forms in the collected puddle beneath me.” Short
description of artist’s family life as a youth: “I
only remember frequently occurring and long lasting starvations, as well
as thrashings, not to any other essential. It is probable that, without my
knowledge, I was one of the light-eaters and spongers of the energy of
cosmos because despite the astounding childhood-starvations, I stayed
alive. I admit that I have probably a finger in the pie that the nights
are somewhat darker as I guzzled some light away from the sky. It also
caused me some difficulties -true that only digestive- that once in a
while -for lack of something better- I feasted in some kind of greasy
material at an uninhabited brickworks.” How
did the family support the decision to become an artist: “Well,
they didn’t stone me. Slowly they accepted that I am stupid.” Sources
of inspiration for the creative process: “Once
constraint drove me into a public restroom but on effect of a pressure
more powerful than anything, in the deposited urinary calculus inside the
neglected toilet I discovered some fantastic drawings. I took out a
notebook and a pencil and my hand, driven by this gigantic creative force,
recorded the forms of the urinary calculus.” Keeping
this inspiration throughout artistic life or finding new inspiration from
which the artist’s art stems: “I
used this subject-discovering-method many times.” The
time when the artist achieved his first sale and what effect this event
had on his personal life: “If
all of my 10 million fellow-countrymen who purchased paintings from me
raised their hands, people thought Hungarians have no arms or they have
paralysis. I achieved my significant sales and success in foreign
countries.”
Short description on how the artist’s art has matured and progressed from her inception in the arts to the present moment. “From
the head of Rakosi carved of pitch, at 6 years of age, I am observing a
straight curved progress from the socialist realism to the symbolic
surrealism which began at age 19, with a devil head. But nowadays I am
already struggling with my own head.” Names
of the locations and years in which the artist’s art has been exhibited: “My
life-works’ only representative exhibition in Hungary was in an
exceptionally distinguished public restroom. 1984, XII District, Batthyany
ter, Toalett Salon. Others in Germany.” The
styles in which the artist specializes: “I am caricaturing the frailty of human being with symbolic surrealist means.” If
the artist specializes in more than one style, which one is the primary
and for what reasons:
“For
me surrealism provides the most possibilities to express the absurd
situations of manifestations of the human soul.” The
specific events (personal or political) which have affected the artist’s
art: “In
1984, being first in the country, I exhibited at the Toalett Salon in
Batthyany ter, which was banned because I posted on the wall a short
message of ideas about the life of the fine arts of that time, which is
stagnating ever since. This made a positive impression on me because after
that, for about 10 years, I didn’t have any mood to paint so I didn’t
have to undergo the distresses of creating.“ If
the artist’s art is a commentary on a specific situation (e.g.
expression of political situation or do they comment on intimate
emotions): “I regularly analyse national-social and political situations. My paintings suggest some attitude in those subjects.” The
artist’s opinion on the present state of the arts and where she thinks
art might be headed: “When in a society they oppress culture then they clear the way to the untrue and real-sincere arts. Thus thanks to the favorable conditions everything is on tracks.” Description
of the artist’s emotions during the artistic process (e.g. if she
considers the artistic process a spiritual experience, a subconscious
reflection or other): “Fortunately’ I just very rarely have chance to paint because I have to take care of myself not to starve to death. But when I am painting I always swear what the hell did I started it for?” If
there is any recurrent theme in the artist’s art and the explanation of
its origins and motives: “The
indifference. An emphasis which represents symbolically the difficulty,
pressing as heavy burden the struggling man beneath who not only has to
groan under the burden but to bear the indifference of the quietly smoking
fellow human being, settled on the emphasis.” The
artist’s favorites of his own works: “Indifference,
Passion, Tick, Honeymoon, Instrument, Tonship, Illusion, Libido, Description
of what inspired the creation of these works, what emotions they provoke
in the artist etc.: “Of
a certain kind of elemental force which is mostly similar to a hard bowel
movement. And just because of that it’s a refreshing feeling when the
work is finally done.”
liberation. If
being an artist taught Nyikolajevna new facets of life and living: “I
don’t know yet if I am an artist. If art is that one has to bear lots of
humiliation, then I have been one for a long time and very weary of it.” Awards
that the artist received for her works with dates: “It
would be enormously dissonant and shame on me if I was recognized by a
society whose unconcern resulting various hindering factors because of
what my talent will never develop.” Newspaper,
magazine articles covering Mora’s art: “Indeed there were written reactions after my exhibitions in a few papers. But all this didn’t make any change in my situation so therefore they have no significance.” Appearance
of Nyikolajevna’s art in other sort of media: “In
literary anthologies as illustrations.” The
artist’s ambitions in art: “As I will never make a living from my talent I do not have such ambitions.” What
the artist wishes to accomplish in the arts: “The
end, as soon as possible. Because I awfully hate dumb people, including
myself.”
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