Broadcasted on December 14, 1963, at 2:33 pm by Kossuth Radio Youth Magazine
Female voice:
“We’re to introduce two painters, Beginners but talented, their art is worth noting.”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“We would like to draw a portrait of the two youngest painters in the city of Debrecen now, but this time with a brush of words. Primarily as creative young people, because there is a significant age difference between the two; exactly 15 years. Égerházi is the older artist …”
Imre Égerházi:
“Ever since I was a child, there has been a constant internal tension in me that could only be calmed when I painted or drew. I currently work in the SZTK as an official, dealing with retirement determinations that use quite a bit of my energy for 8 hours a day, so only after I have time to deal with art in, my free time, and, as the painter József Menyhárt wrote in his critique of the exhibition, I try to overcome these obstacles with stubbornness. ”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“You must know that Gauguin, the famous French painter, was also touched late by the devil’s spurs.”
Imre Égerházi:
“I really went to the point where the devil ‘s spur touched me too late, I got to where I am now in a short time, but I don’t think this is the end of the line; I want to get further, I want to paint newer and more beautiful pictures of the life around us. ”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“We ask Rudi Velényi what kind of eyes a painter looks at the world with and how he tries to reproduce it in his own paintings.”
Rudolf Velényi:
“He who paints, somehow sees the world differently, will pick up everything in his style and try to portray it that way.”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“I noticed that there is almost never a sky is painted anywhere in your images.”
Rudolf Velényi:
“I usually enclose all my images in rectangles. By rectangle, I mean the closed way of composing; when I leave the sky completely, so I also want to emphasize constructiveness more.”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“Where do you take the subject of your paintings from, what do you portray primarily – what is it that occupies you?”
Rudolf Velényi:
“Well, I try to work in quite a variety of topics, from depiction of people to depiction of landscapes, and I try very surprising forms in a kind of photo-like way – I deal mainly with youth, because I also teach.”
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“Can this be called a problematic branch of painting?”
Rudolf Velényi:
“It could be but it isn’t, because today’s painting wants to bring to life momentary, almost photographic ideas, and leaves it with the viewer’s imagination. Figures, also somewhat in the foreground, with a background of almost the same importance, with a rhythm that highlights and emphasizes these.
Béla Szémann (reporter):
“And the outcome of the exhibition?”
Rudolf Velényi:
“It was joyful, I would say. We had a lot of understanding both in art circles and on the part of the audience. We would like to organize exhibitions at other times as well. We hope we will have the opportunity.”