Where the painting has been so far

20 July 2008 The "For conscience's sake" 

exhibition with Alida Kovács at the Studio Gallery.  The painting was exhibited in its half finished form. Photo by FKSE 

19 january 2009. On the "Art Fair - Terv - Barátaink" 

blog created by Tibor Horváth and Miklós Mécs + on Vatera, thanks to the guys. There were no bids on the painting during the auction.

29 January 2009 The "Plastic Fantastic" exhibition at the Ferenczy Auction Centre, Budapest. Photo by Tiara

We had to take the painting to the Student Loan Centre for a few hours. While it was away, it was substituted by this small print:

9-10 May 2009  Viennafair. At the Budapest stand of FKSE, together with Csaba Uglár, Judit Fischer, Miklós Mécs and János Sugár.

HALL OF FAME - the prefigurations (a few)

01. Jesus Christ, who not only taught that impossible does not exist, but also demonstrated it by walking on water, multiplying bread and resurrecting the dead.  

02. The famous 115 dollar  "Tzanck check", which Marcel Duchamp paid his dentist with in 1919.

03. Christo collecting funds with his cool sight-plans for his mega-expensive giga-artworks. 

04. "Magic Pencil" the polish cartoon in which the drawings of the little boy came true. Here is an episode on youtube.

05. The "million dollar homepage", that earned more than a million dollars for a guy in a very short time.

06. "Canon XL1" 170x130 cm oil painting of  Erik Mátrai, on sale for a Canon XL1 camera, or the it’s current price.

07. The bill by Csaba Uglár, we quickly bought of it for 5000 forints ourselves.

08. We found this one on the Viennafair homepage a week ago:  Helmut Mark, who painted only the selling price presumably on his pictures in the 80’s.

and some others...

Our letter to Tamás Csillag, CEO of Diákhitel Központ ZRT

We wanted to sell the picture by  31. December 2008  (we calculated the number on it according to this date), so on 16 December we decided to send a letter containing our offer to the CEO of the Student Loan Centre.

Early parental skepticism

PPPPPPPPPPPPPLetter shown to dad at X-mas.PPPPPPPPPPPP

Reply of Tamás Csillag

Less than a month after sending the letter, the answer arrived. Tamás Csillag invited us to a meeting in his office. 

Our first visit to Tamás Csillag

Documenting the journey of the painting. 

Music: Antonio Badalamenti in midi file format (excerpt from the radio play „Hero” by Janó)

From left to right: Rita Halasi, Tamás Csillag and Lilla Borsos Lőrinc

Lilla is holding an envelope with the number 3676, containing the same amount of cash.  This is the difference between the number on the painting and the actual amount of the debt, that would have been returned if the picture had been purchased. This sum has now grown to 15.000 Forints since then.

The result of the meeting:

This push is just what we needed to get this fantastic/amazing/wonderful/astonishing project -the exhibition- off the ground. 

We quickly applied and got some money from the National Cultural Fund.