József Kádár Debrecen, 1936 - 2019

He moved to Paris in 1969. He was known in Hungary as a highly expressive, figurative painter. During his early Parisian period, he was touched by surrealism, constructivism and various abstract movements. His dualist period dates from 1973, and his horizontalist period from 1984. In 1969, he created his first mail-art envelopes and his first libraries (livres objets). From 1979, he created artistic photographs and photograms, on which he processed his experiences in Israel, India, Italy, Greece and Spain. Lucien Hervé praised these works. He also began to deal with electrography in 1979. In the early 1980s, he began to use the photocopier for artistic purposes. He copied, stret...