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Judit Reigl

Judit Reigl (1923 - 2020) was a Hungarian painter who lived in France.
Most of her paintings which were included in the show at galerie À l'Étoile scellée are more abstract, the exhibited canvases were Reigl's first experimentation with automatic writing, a technique that recurs in various forms throughout her oeuvre. Reigl's automatism arode from instinctive gestures of her body and showcases movement, levitation, tension and changes in processes, rhythms and roots of existence on spectacular large canvases. Figurative- and non-figurative representation was for her a question of encoding and de-coding but may also be anthropomorphic.
Reigl used her body as her primary instrument when creating the series Outburst which she began in 1955. The Outbursts series is different from her earlier paintings with automatic writing in that they no longer used improvised metal tools to make spontaneous gestural marks. She began with throwing thick industrial pigment mixed with linseed oil onto the canvas with her hands and continued by vigorously scraping it from the center to the edges with a tool. In a 1956 Outburst in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the relatively spare composition is punctuated by thick impastos or forceful marks. The artist later explained this time in her life as a transitional period when she severed her ties with the Surrealists. The Outbursts are explosions of mass, radiating from a center as bursts of pure energy.
For her following series Mass Writing , Reigl applied large volumes of thick, slow-drying black pigment to the canvas using a blade or a stick, and then painted with upward strokes. In these works, the black areas are dispersed outward toward the edges of the canvas. While working on these canvases, Reigl inadvertently began in 1958 working on an innovative oeuvre of paintings called Guanos, in which she reworked rejected canvases that had been covering the floor of her studio. The textured surface of these paintings evoke the archeological which was further affirmed by the artist herself when she referred to the canvases becoming "fertile ground" for new paintings.Wikipedia

Bela Kondor - avant-garde painter and graphic artist

Bela Kondor (February 17, Budapest, 1931 – December 12, 1972) was a Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic
"A founding master of a style and a school of art in the world of Hungarian modern art, he began his training on the fine arts faculty of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1950, and graduated from the graphics department in 1956. Even his diploma work (the Dózsa series) elicited a huge response: not only his artist fellows, but critics also took note of him, Lajos Németh among them, later to write the first article and the first monograph on his friend. He worked on the artist colonies of Kecskemét and Miskolc, took study trips to France, the Soviet Union and travelled exhaustively in the region of Eastern Europe. His drawings were regularly published by journals from 1958 onwards, and he prepared the illustrations for round about 20 volumes of literature. After 1959 he entered a number of fresco, panorama and glass-window competitions. His oeuvre of paintings represent the same professional expertise, lively formal ability, narrative stance and individual systems of motives and symbols that is found in his graphic work. He also made a series of photographs in 1970. He played the organ with excellence and wrote poems, his poetry first published in 1971 form a self-contained segment of his life work."(kieselbach.hu)

Bela Kondor

Bela Kondor (Pestszentlőrinc, February 17, Budapest, 1931 – December 12, 1972) was a Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist.

Charles Roka

Charles Roka (Róka Károly, 1912–1999) was a Hungarian painter living in Norway whose name became synonymous with an excess of artistic kitsch.
Roka was born in Hungary in 1912. After he finished his studies on the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest he went on a European journey. In 1937 he finally settled in Norway, and lived in Bærum, outside Oslo until his death.

In 1950 he painted his first picture of the half-naked Gipsy Girl whom he had seen in Marseille a few years earlier. It is Roka's numerous variations of this Gypsy Girl which made his financial success as a painter. His other favourite subjects were Hungarian folklore, especially Gipsy people dancing csárdás and portraits.

Roka had several exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, and Lausanne and he was very popular among the average Scandinavian people. In 1982 illness stopped him working. In 2003 Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum held a summer exhibition under the title Prince of Kitsch displaying about 80 of his works. It was the first time that a venerable art gallery let Roka's works within its walls.Wikipedia