Hungarian Artist Identity Training

Hungarian Artist Identity Training. Gymnastics in a pit in the form of Hungary to the music of the Funeral March of Shubert. I dug this hole with my father on my 30th birthday, in muddy ground with sweating work. The film was made as a ceremonial pledge; I repeated all exercises thirty times. I decided not to let myself become alienated from art because of all the negative impacts in my country, but consciously I train myself and choose to strengthen myself from these kinds of experiences. I consider my country as my educator, the people as my coach and God as my training officer.

2009. Conspiracy - Midnight transfer - FKSE - Contemporary Art Institute, Dunaújváros, Hungary

Actions under the name Rex Regnum

2008. "Profanity" exhibition, OctogonArt Gallery, Budapest

Kneeling and "Terror bread sharing" (giving self made bread to the people)

2009. Exhibition FIKA, Pécs, Hungary

Video installation and giving self made bread to the people

National kneel

The main motivation of the costume is to compensate groups living in exclusion because of their race, ethnic or moral belonging. I wear this dress during two kinds of actions: during openings I distribute homemade bread and kneel down before the guests. The short film is the interpretation of this latter. To kneel before the Hungarian national symbols is an act of antinationalism, which I do in the spirit and for the good of Christian brotherhood, concerning all nations and superior to any national identity. The location of the action is the Kossuth square in Budapest, where the Parliament stands in the background.

2009. ARC exhibition, Budapest

camera-man: Erik Mátrai

This is my body which is given for you

three self made wooden chairs, with variable parts

110x50x50 cm each

2007, video

An attempt at exemplifying the gospel through the first word that comes to mind "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made" Romans 1:20

I have read the above cited passage of the New Testament and set myself to examine its truth in the following way: I would try to present the work of redemption through the first word that would come to mind. If I succeeded, I would accept the statement as true.

At that moment the word chair sprang to mind. In a few minutes I had a simple scheme: there would be one complete and three defective chairs. The complete chair would represent the Redeemer, and the defective chairs would represent mankind waiting for redemption. The three defective chairs should be completed with parts of the complete chair that would be disassembled, so that we would get three complete chairs as a result.

Some months later I called on a friend, a joiner, who built the woodwork with my and some other friends' cooperation.

I especially thank those partaking in the work: Kiss Kálmán, Sólyom Attila, Bódy László, Mátrai Erik, Finita la Commedia

The fenevad sux!

2003. Action of The Corporation (Erik Mátrai, Gábor Szenteleki, .page., János Borsos) art group at Heroes Square, Budapest as a part of the demonstration against iraqi war. We were carrying these boards and a plush sheep figure and I was wearing a cd player with loudspeakers on my back with techno music of .page..

Fenevad=The beast (synonym for the word antichrist)