István Horkay (born December 25, 1945 in Budapest) is a Hungarian painter.
After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1964, 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 expected his Master of Fine Arts. He continued his Studies at the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. (1968) and did extra Post graduate operate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. (1971) Horkay studied below the Internationally known Artist and Theater Director Tadeusz Kantor as competently as Professors M. Wejman, J. Nowosielski, and Palle Nielsen, Danmark. He traditional Diplomas in Graphic Arts, Painting, and Film Animation. He is fanatic of the Alliance Graphique International (AGI)
Horkay’s art is epitomic in the double meaning of the word: a fragment, an incised share of something already in existence, and – just because of this incision – is an insult to the done surface, to the tangle of writing or a ended picture. This relies upon 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 interchange as substitute colors enter the surface at oscillate sites. It is the similar 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. 1986. p. 148).
The sign will temporarily closen exceeding the story. Who else would know this improved than Freud, who, after the neurological-physiological and neuropsychical phases, so terribly doubted that it was possible “to bring to spacious the hidden content in its wholeness”
(Konstruktionen in der Analyse 1937. in: Stud. Ausgabe Ergb. Fischer V. 1982. p. 398).
Béla Bacsó
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