The enormous compulsion

Exhibition of Dezso Tandori

Curated by: Éva Gelencsér Rothman and Ákos Kovács According to his own words Odysseus was driven by an enormous compulsion and that is why he could not find peace even in Calypso´s lap in general we might as well say that to a certain extent everybody shares the experience of this unsettling and chasing desire: everybody follows this stream or turns against it, falls in or wrestles with it, interrogates and worships it - there are millions of variations. Sixty-year-old poet, writer and translator Dezso Tandori is a distinguished expert of this desire and simultaneously the renovator of Hungarian literature. An eloquent proof of this is the more than eight hundred books in which his works are included. This objective fact is tempting providence - and in itself also an absurd experiment to represent an intellect. The illustrated bibliography and the exhibition are the documentation of his almost four decades of work - the enormous power, the parameters of his creation thus becomes visible for the public. One is allowed to wonder at and dissolve in the colorful mixture of his artwork unfolding from the various layers of his artistic thinking. One is allowed to rejoice over the richness, unique poetry, thoughtful depth, humor, and confrontation between the rational and the pious - the magical originality to be found in the art of one of our contemporaries.