Csáji, Attila

Artists

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. He is one of the prominent personality of the contemporary Hungarian art. In the 60s and 70s, he set out to organise the new Hungarian Avant-garde (SZÜRENON, the Hungarian avant-garde exhibition series in Poland, "R" exhibition, shows in the Balatonboglár Chapel, series of shows in Yugoslavia etc.).He especially contributed to a fresh start-minded artistic process, which takes effect today, and today the exhibitions organized by him have art-historical importance. In the mid-70s, he started to explore the pictorial possibilities provided by laser light. Aided by the Central Physics Research Institute, he explored the visual possibilities of the coherent laser light. He experimented a new visual transformational method, the so-called superposition method (international patent in 1980).

Laser shows (selection)

1981	Finlandia Palace (Cell crystals, Braid belt), Helsinki
1982	Bella Center (Cell crystals), Copenhagen
1983	Messepalast (laser light mobile show), Stuttgart
2004	"Return" (laser environment), Hungarian Academy Rome, Falconieri Palace
2011	"Return", Grote Kerk, Hague

Memberships

1992	Szinyei Merse Pál Society, president
1992-1994	National Association of Hungarian Artists, president
1992-1995	Curator for the Visual Arts of the National Cultural Fund, president
1999	International György Kepes Society

Scholarships

BWA scholarship

Soros scholarship

Interscience Technology scholarship

Scholarship of Province of Brabant

Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy Rome

Collective exhibitions (selection)

He attended more than 500 exhibitions.

1983	ELECTRA 83, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1984	"LICHT-BLICKE"- Hologram World Expo, Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
1991	"The Sixties", Hungarian National Gallery
1996	„Beyond art", Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2002	LUX EUROPAE, Copenhagen
2003	V. International Light Symposium, Kepes Center, Eger
2010	VIII. International Light Symposium, Pécs Cultural Centre, Pécs
2012	"We belong together" group exhibition, Forrás Galéria, Budapest

Individual exhibitions (selection)

1977	Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1980	Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1983	Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1988	Műcsarnok, Budapest
2007	Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2008	Symbol Gallery Hungarien Contemporary Gallery, Dunaszerdahely Székely Museum, Gyárfás Picture Gallery, Sepsiszentgyörgy
2010	Klebelsberg Kuno Culture Mansion, Budapest Suez Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

Works in Collections (selection)

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár

Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs

Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Kinshan and Seoul Modern Museum

Kozawa Collection, Tokyo

MIT Collection, Cambridge

National Museum, Poznan

National Museum, Szczecin

Brasov Museum, Brasov

East- Slovakia Museum, Kosice

Richardson Collection

Jodhpuri Maharaja's Collection

Manekraj Art Promotion Foundation

Körmendi-Csák Collection

Bibliography

1997

Hegyi, Lóránd, Körner, Éva, Mezei, Ottó, Sík, Csaba: Csáji Attila

(Edited by Körmendi Gallery)

2009

Csáji, Attila: Billenő idő