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SZEMADÁM, György
SZEMADÁM, György
painter, writer
(25 October, 1947, Budapest - ) 1967-75: keeper, later head keeper of big carnivores at the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. From 1968: exhibiting artist - until 2005 he had 46 independent exhibitions in Hungary and in foreign countries (Wien, Prague, Moscow). Since 1978 publishes lots of critiques of fine arts, films and photos, cultural historical and art theoretic essays, publications, opens exhibitions and holds lectures on different subjects. 1979-93 heads creative camps and circles for children and for adults, holds other classes of fine arts, works in the National Institution of Psychotherapy as art-therapist, heads the creative classes of disadvantaged children in family-helping centres. 1982-93 teacher of the GYIK Workshop in the Hungarian National Gallery, from 1988 he's the head of it. 1997-99 general editor of the Hungarian Television's Visual Arts Editorial Office.
Membership of Professional Associations:
1977- member of the Artists Foundation (from 1991: Association of Hungarian Creative Artists) painters' section
1980- member of the Hungarian Creative Artists' League
1981-83 member of Young Creative Artists' Studio
1982-84 president of the Amateur Artists' Council
1990- member of the Kállai Erno Circle
1990-93 member of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation's Feature Film Section
1991- member of the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
1992-93 senior employee of the Hungarian Cultural Institute
1992-95 joint president of the Hungarian Painters' Society
1993- president of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation's Animation Film Section
1994- member of the Altamira Society
1995- member of the Hungarian Painters' Society
1998-2001 member of the Hungarian Cultural Foundation's Presidency
1998- president of the Foundation for the Hungarian Painting
1999-02 president of the Foundation for the Culture of Csepel
2001- member of the Unicorn Group
2002- member of the presidency in the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
2004- member of the Hungarian Arts' Academy
2005- member of the Patak Group. Selected Awards, Grants:
1979: third place on the Hungarian Creative Artists' League's essay competition
1981: third place on the Second District's Cultural Section and the Cultural Centre's Exhibition for Physically Handicapped People
1981: divided first place on the Young Creative Artists' Studio's artistic writer's competition
1986: second place on the Hunnia Filmstudio's 'Send a story!' filmstory competition
1993: extra prize on the Fine Art's Film Festival in Szolnok with an episode of the "Múzeumosdi"
1993: the prize of the Cultural and Educational Ministry on the exhibition 'Things of our lives - Still lives of our things'
1996: first prize on the exhibition 'Artistic cards - fate cards'
1996: extra prize on the exhibition 'In memoriam 1956'
1997: Hungarian Republic's Order's Knight-Cross
1999: an episode of his series '(H)arc-képek' wins festival-award in the category of studio-snapshot on the Television Film Festival of Kamera Hungaria
2000: his film, 'The lost Paradise' wins extra prize on the Fine Art's Film Festival in Szolnok
2000: on the exhibition 'Corpus regni' he wins the award of the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
2001: Munkácsy-award
2003: Artistic Pedagogical Award of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Hungarian Cultural Institution
2003: perpetual award-winner of the Patak Gallery in Szigetszentmiklós
2005: festival-award with an episode from the series 'Madarat tolláról...' on the Kamera Hungaria Film Festival. One-Man Shows:
1969 • Stock-Raising College
1970 • House of Technology, Esztergom (HU)
1971 • Chapel Gallery, Balatonboglár (HU)
1974 • Budapest University of Technology E-Club • FMK, Budapest
1977 • Cellar Exhibition of Ferencváros, Budapest • Club of Szabó Ernő Municicipal Library, Budapest
1979 • Community Centre, Tiszakécske (HU)
1980 • Fényes Adolf Terem, Budapest • Petõfi Community Centre, Gyõr (HU)
1981 • Bástya Gallery, Budapest
1982 • Gallery of Erzsébetváros, Budapest • Cellar Exhibition of Ferencváros, Budapest • Community Centre Gallery, Szolnok (HU)
1983 • Erkel Community Centre, Budakeszi (HU) • Community Centre Small Gallery, Eger (HU) • Liget Gallery, Budapest
1984 • Small Gallery of Komárom (HU) • Kölcsey Small Gallery, Debrecen (HU)
1988 • Kilián Community Centre, Kaposvár (HU)
1989 • Duna Gallery, Budapest
1991 • Budapest Gallery Lajos u., Budapest
1992 • Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna • Community Centre, Oroszlány (HU) • Mini Gallery, Miskolc (HU)
1993 • Hungarian Institute, Prague • Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest (cat.)
1994 • Játékszín
1995 • Hungarian Institute, Moscow • Gallery of Kaposfüred (HU)
1996 • Stílus Gallery, Budapest • Merlin Gallery, Budapest • Csepel Gallery, Budapest
1997 • Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
2001 • Kecskemét Gallery, Kecskemét (HU) • Vaszary Gallery, Kaposvár (HU)[with Péter Prutkay]
2004 • Gallery of Víziváros, Budapest Selected Group Exhibition:
1971 • Chapel Gallery, Balatonboglár • Exhibition of the No. 1 group, Zoo, Budapest
1983 • For the New Art 1960-1975, Móra Ferenc Museum - Bartók Community Centre, Szeged (HU)
1985 • Rosa, rosa neurosa, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1994 • The Eighties – Fine Arts, Ernst Museum, Budapest • Speculum, Budapest Gallery Lajos u., Budapest
1997 • No. 1, 1969-1971, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1998 • Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely (HU). Books:
Marcell Jankovics (monography). Budapest, 1987
Hoppál, M. , Jankovics, M. , Nagy, A. , Szemadám, Gy.: Jelképtár. Budapest, 1990, 2004 (completed, corrected edition)
Apokrif állattan. Budapest, 1991
Belso Tárlat. Budapest, 1995
Apokrif lények enciklopédiája. Debrecen, 1997
Antik torzók és válogatott vernisszázsok. Budapest, 1999
Zé ó és ó. Budapest, 2001
Ezredfordulós írások. Budapest, 2003 Films:
1988-89 • The field of liberty (with László Lugosi-Lugo)
1999 • The lost paradise Television series:
1991-97 • (H)arc-képek (60 episodes, with Alfréd Wiegmann and Árpád Sós
1993-94 • Jelképtár (13 episodes, with Mihály Hoppál, Marcell Jankovics and András Nagy)
1993-94, 98 • Múzeumosdi (9 episodes, with István Sinkó and Gábor Rohonyi)
1995-97 • Játékos bestiárium A-tól Z-ig (25 episodes, with Edit Kremsier and Ágnes M. Lukács)
2002-03 • Madarat tolláról (12 episodes, with Tibor Kocsis) Bibliography:
Dévényi, I.: ~, Vigilia, 1969/9.
Frank, J.: ~, New Hungarian Quarterly, 1978/4.
P. Szabó, E.: Múzeum, Új Tükör, 1989. február 26.
Szegõ, Gy.: Jelolvasó, Élet és Irodalom, 1990. június 8.
Sinkó, I.: A madaras ember, Magyar Napló, 1991. november 1.
Mezei, O.: ~ radikális eklektikája, Új Mûvészet, 1991/12.
K. Tóth, L.: Szeretném, ha képeim itthon maradnának (interjú), Forrás, 1993/2.
Kováts, A.: ~ kiállítása, Beszélõ, 1993. december 9.
Szegõ, Gy.: csend (így) kis kezdõbetûvel, Új Mûvészet, 1994/4.
Sinkó, I.: Egy kis halhatatlanság, Új Mûvészet, 1996/5.
Szeifert, J.: A No. 1 csoport, Balkon, 1997/7-9.
Sinkovits, P.: Képes szalonok-szalonképek, Új Mûvészet, 1997/12.
Kopócsy, A.: Nagyvadak között (No. 1 csoport 1969-1971), Új Mûvészet, 1999/5.
painter, writer
(25 October, 1947, Budapest - ) 1967-75: keeper, later head keeper of big carnivores at the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. From 1968: exhibiting artist - until 2005 he had 46 independent exhibitions in Hungary and in foreign countries (Wien, Prague, Moscow). Since 1978 publishes lots of critiques of fine arts, films and photos, cultural historical and art theoretic essays, publications, opens exhibitions and holds lectures on different subjects. 1979-93 heads creative camps and circles for children and for adults, holds other classes of fine arts, works in the National Institution of Psychotherapy as art-therapist, heads the creative classes of disadvantaged children in family-helping centres. 1982-93 teacher of the GYIK Workshop in the Hungarian National Gallery, from 1988 he's the head of it. 1997-99 general editor of the Hungarian Television's Visual Arts Editorial Office.
Membership of Professional Associations:
1977- member of the Artists Foundation (from 1991: Association of Hungarian Creative Artists) painters' section
1980- member of the Hungarian Creative Artists' League
1981-83 member of Young Creative Artists' Studio
1982-84 president of the Amateur Artists' Council
1990- member of the Kállai Erno Circle
1990-93 member of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation's Feature Film Section
1991- member of the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
1992-93 senior employee of the Hungarian Cultural Institute
1992-95 joint president of the Hungarian Painters' Society
1993- president of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation's Animation Film Section
1994- member of the Altamira Society
1995- member of the Hungarian Painters' Society
1998-2001 member of the Hungarian Cultural Foundation's Presidency
1998- president of the Foundation for the Hungarian Painting
1999-02 president of the Foundation for the Culture of Csepel
2001- member of the Unicorn Group
2002- member of the presidency in the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
2004- member of the Hungarian Arts' Academy
2005- member of the Patak Group. Selected Awards, Grants:
1979: third place on the Hungarian Creative Artists' League's essay competition
1981: third place on the Second District's Cultural Section and the Cultural Centre's Exhibition for Physically Handicapped People
1981: divided first place on the Young Creative Artists' Studio's artistic writer's competition
1986: second place on the Hunnia Filmstudio's 'Send a story!' filmstory competition
1993: extra prize on the Fine Art's Film Festival in Szolnok with an episode of the "Múzeumosdi"
1993: the prize of the Cultural and Educational Ministry on the exhibition 'Things of our lives - Still lives of our things'
1996: first prize on the exhibition 'Artistic cards - fate cards'
1996: extra prize on the exhibition 'In memoriam 1956'
1997: Hungarian Republic's Order's Knight-Cross
1999: an episode of his series '(H)arc-képek' wins festival-award in the category of studio-snapshot on the Television Film Festival of Kamera Hungaria
2000: his film, 'The lost Paradise' wins extra prize on the Fine Art's Film Festival in Szolnok
2000: on the exhibition 'Corpus regni' he wins the award of the Szinyei Merse Pál Society
2001: Munkácsy-award
2003: Artistic Pedagogical Award of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Hungarian Cultural Institution
2003: perpetual award-winner of the Patak Gallery in Szigetszentmiklós
2005: festival-award with an episode from the series 'Madarat tolláról...' on the Kamera Hungaria Film Festival. One-Man Shows:
1969 • Stock-Raising College
1970 • House of Technology, Esztergom (HU)
1971 • Chapel Gallery, Balatonboglár (HU)
1974 • Budapest University of Technology E-Club • FMK, Budapest
1977 • Cellar Exhibition of Ferencváros, Budapest • Club of Szabó Ernő Municicipal Library, Budapest
1979 • Community Centre, Tiszakécske (HU)
1980 • Fényes Adolf Terem, Budapest • Petõfi Community Centre, Gyõr (HU)
1981 • Bástya Gallery, Budapest
1982 • Gallery of Erzsébetváros, Budapest • Cellar Exhibition of Ferencváros, Budapest • Community Centre Gallery, Szolnok (HU)
1983 • Erkel Community Centre, Budakeszi (HU) • Community Centre Small Gallery, Eger (HU) • Liget Gallery, Budapest
1984 • Small Gallery of Komárom (HU) • Kölcsey Small Gallery, Debrecen (HU)
1988 • Kilián Community Centre, Kaposvár (HU)
1989 • Duna Gallery, Budapest
1991 • Budapest Gallery Lajos u., Budapest
1992 • Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna • Community Centre, Oroszlány (HU) • Mini Gallery, Miskolc (HU)
1993 • Hungarian Institute, Prague • Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest (cat.)
1994 • Játékszín
1995 • Hungarian Institute, Moscow • Gallery of Kaposfüred (HU)
1996 • Stílus Gallery, Budapest • Merlin Gallery, Budapest • Csepel Gallery, Budapest
1997 • Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
2001 • Kecskemét Gallery, Kecskemét (HU) • Vaszary Gallery, Kaposvár (HU)[with Péter Prutkay]
2004 • Gallery of Víziváros, Budapest Selected Group Exhibition:
1971 • Chapel Gallery, Balatonboglár • Exhibition of the No. 1 group, Zoo, Budapest
1983 • For the New Art 1960-1975, Móra Ferenc Museum - Bartók Community Centre, Szeged (HU)
1985 • Rosa, rosa neurosa, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
1994 • The Eighties – Fine Arts, Ernst Museum, Budapest • Speculum, Budapest Gallery Lajos u., Budapest
1997 • No. 1, 1969-1971, Ernst Museum, Budapest
1998 • Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely (HU). Books:
Marcell Jankovics (monography). Budapest, 1987
Hoppál, M. , Jankovics, M. , Nagy, A. , Szemadám, Gy.: Jelképtár. Budapest, 1990, 2004 (completed, corrected edition)
Apokrif állattan. Budapest, 1991
Belso Tárlat. Budapest, 1995
Apokrif lények enciklopédiája. Debrecen, 1997
Antik torzók és válogatott vernisszázsok. Budapest, 1999
Zé ó és ó. Budapest, 2001
Ezredfordulós írások. Budapest, 2003 Films:
1988-89 • The field of liberty (with László Lugosi-Lugo)
1999 • The lost paradise Television series:
1991-97 • (H)arc-képek (60 episodes, with Alfréd Wiegmann and Árpád Sós
1993-94 • Jelképtár (13 episodes, with Mihály Hoppál, Marcell Jankovics and András Nagy)
1993-94, 98 • Múzeumosdi (9 episodes, with István Sinkó and Gábor Rohonyi)
1995-97 • Játékos bestiárium A-tól Z-ig (25 episodes, with Edit Kremsier and Ágnes M. Lukács)
2002-03 • Madarat tolláról (12 episodes, with Tibor Kocsis) Bibliography:
Dévényi, I.: ~, Vigilia, 1969/9.
Frank, J.: ~, New Hungarian Quarterly, 1978/4.
P. Szabó, E.: Múzeum, Új Tükör, 1989. február 26.
Szegõ, Gy.: Jelolvasó, Élet és Irodalom, 1990. június 8.
Sinkó, I.: A madaras ember, Magyar Napló, 1991. november 1.
Mezei, O.: ~ radikális eklektikája, Új Mûvészet, 1991/12.
K. Tóth, L.: Szeretném, ha képeim itthon maradnának (interjú), Forrás, 1993/2.
Kováts, A.: ~ kiállítása, Beszélõ, 1993. december 9.
Szegõ, Gy.: csend (így) kis kezdõbetûvel, Új Mûvészet, 1994/4.
Sinkó, I.: Egy kis halhatatlanság, Új Mûvészet, 1996/5.
Szeifert, J.: A No. 1 csoport, Balkon, 1997/7-9.
Sinkovits, P.: Képes szalonok-szalonképek, Új Mûvészet, 1997/12.
Kopócsy, A.: Nagyvadak között (No. 1 csoport 1969-1971), Új Mûvészet, 1999/5.
