The trees are rioting red flowers

I took the title of the exhibition from the first line of Miklós Radnóti’s poem Spring, both to pay tribute to the greatness of the poet on the 80th anniversary of his death, and to remember the current ecological disasters and horrors of war by praying for peace. I imagined the arrangement of the images as a three-dimensional film-book, into which the viewer would enter and gain ‘intellectual energy’ through art therapy. Radnóti’s fate is a reason for me to draw visual contrasts between myself and the present disease, between the past and the present, between childish drawing and speculative logic, between light and darkness, between the order of reason and the “spontaneous actions of the heart” and the order of reason and the “spontaneous actions of the heart” (J. Cage). At 70, I look at Eros in the rear-view mirror and on the other side Thanatos leaves signs, in the shadow of the double opposition of love/love there is always the external social, environmental nuisance that in the past has ruined youth, limited freedom and lulled us into a false sense of kitsch. Today, it threatens the peace of mankind with the warfare that is fomenting world conflagration. Thus our unbridled ‘flowering’ is turning into a rebellion of the trees. In every tree there is a marriage for life… in love there is eternity: birth, life, death and rebirth. In the flower, there are energies of peace, joy and love that grow from the earth, like the food it gives us, and everything that makes it one’s home (N.Tesla), let us preserve it!