This richly illustrated volume presents the extensive oeuvre of Attila Szücs (Born 1967 in
Miskolc) one of Hungary's most important contemporary painters. Szucs works with old newspaper
clippings postcards photographs and film stills adding new meaning to these traces of the
collective memory in his works. Besides issues concerning the culture of remembrance and memory
research the tendencies of East and Central European painting and the artist's early
experiences with totalitarianism have influenced his art. The incursion of the uncanny into the
familiar manifests in the large oil paintings: ghostly absent protagonists peculiar furniture
and everyday objects stand isolated in deserted spaces melancholic in their lack of
relationship to anything else. The masterful use of light and shadow in combination with
unexpectedly harsh colors reinforces the surrealistic impression of these scenes. Dream and
memory dissolve into each other creating a fascinating state of suspension in Szücs' s visual
universe. Exhibition: Ludwig Museum Budapest December 2016
