“In art, beauty is what matters most to me. […] Without an audience, art does not fulfill its function of artistic communication. […] Man, as we know, is but a speck of dust in the universe. But just as the sun shines through a speck of dust and the sunbeam glints upon it, so the whole universe shines through man.” – Gross Arnold

With a retrospective exhibition we pay tribute to the world-famous Hungarian graphic artist Gross Arnold, born 95 years ago and bound to Oradea (Nagyvárad) by a thousand threads: some 60 of his works, spanning his entire oeuvre, arrive in our city within the framework of the Festum Varadinum. The exhibition Journeys to Real and Imaginary Landscapes comes to Oradea as a stop on a long-running traveling exhibition, courtesy of the ten-year-old Gross Arnold Gallery in Budapest and the master’s son, Gross András, custodian of the estate. The festive opening will take place on Wednesday, May 7, at 6 p.m., in the second-floor exhibition halls of the Baroque Roman Catholic Bishop’s Palace. The selection sets out from the intimate visual world of the family home and garden and the surroundings of Turda (Torda), moving toward Hungarian landscapes, foreign cities and imaginary realms — the principal vehicle of our journey through time being the etching. The works of the Artist of the Nation, Kossuth and Munkácsy Prize-winning graphic artist will remain in Oradea until the end of June.

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