Miklos Grandpierre Kolosvary
Hont, Hungary
Storm in a Land of Fire
Odometer at 226189
date : 14-07-2003

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Story SHOW HOPE : "Your idea fascinated me when asked by Guus and Ildiko, and I'm very willing to participate. But soon after I noticed it is not so easy to show hope in a painting. I looked at my life and remembered good things in my life. When I was young, I was more or less the fool of the village, or at least didn't get much respect because I was 'artist' or 'different'. Because I did not work but I painted. In the mid eighties I had the opportunity to make an exhibition in the Scandinavia and was lucky to get a permission from the ministry of culture, who wanted to see Hungarian artists go West. In the years to come almost a dozen exhibitions in the West followed. After that I was no longer fool of town but I became respected like man should be respected, or even more.
This painting is about the talents and anti-talents.
And I hope the talents will always overcome the anti talents, otherwise it will be a cold and boring world.