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K\u00c1ROLY CHOCHOL | Processing Memories<\/h2>\n
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Budapest Gallery<\/p>\n
1036 Budapest, Lajos utca 158.<\/p>\n
18 April \u2013 10 May 2015<\/p>\n
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Vernissage: 17 April 2015., 17:00<\/p>\n
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Curator of the exhibition:<\/p>\n
Kl\u00e1ra Szarka<\/p>\n
photo historian[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ el_class=”full-2″][vc_column_text]K\u00e1roly Chochol has been photographing Budapest for more than sixty years. His records sometimes reflect a lyrical, often ironic, other times an objective approach. Were one to compare his visual world to the works of another photographer, one would probably think first of the Frenchman Robert Doisneau. Chochol, however, is at home not just in genre scenes. He has won awards with his portraits and has earned recognition as a landscape photographer, but his oeuvre contains far more than this, and in a far greater diversity. As an eternal innovator, an artist who was always active, he has accumulated an array of images that is imposing in its size alone. Over the course of the past few decades, however, creation itself has always been more important, along with the many roles he has assumed in the public art world, than any systematic presentation of the various segments of his oeuvre.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_single_image image=”10024″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/p>\n
Angyalf\u00f6ld Back Then\u2026<\/em> (photograph from the series), 1960s<\/p>\n
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K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/p>\n
In Budapest, <\/em>1960s<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_column_text]His eightieth birthday this year proved a good prompting for a long overdue retrospection. Thus, on the walls of the Budapest Gallery the visitor will see works never before published, providing surprises even for those who are well acquainted with his work.<\/p>\n
He stepped onto the stage of Hungarian photography in the early 1950s as a young high school student. His teachers were the great old masters who had attained international fame before the war. The legendary Angelo Master, F. G. Haller, Ern\u0151 Vadas and other great masters of the profession encouraged the talented young photographer.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_single_image image=”10040″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” el_class=”allo-kep” img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text el_class=”allo-kep”]<\/p>\n
K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/p>\n
Warily Guarded Treasure, <\/em> Budapest, 1970s<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_column_text]Chochol has committed his entire life to photography. Creating images, indeed, has remained his passion to this day.<\/p>\n
The present cross-section of his oeuvre \u2013 which is presented here with an exhibition and a representative album \u2013 not only offers a sample of the self-expression of a photographer with a unique approach, but also constitutes a thought-provoking imprint of the last sixty-five years of Hungarian photography and, in certain respects, Hungarian history.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_single_image image=”10041″ border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” el_class=”allo-kep” img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text el_class=”allo-kep”]<\/p>\n
K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/p>\n
In Budapest,<\/em> 1960s<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_column_text]Biography of K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/strong>
\nBorn on 27 January 1935, in Budapest
\n1949\u20131953 Attended the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s J\u00f3zsef Grammar School
\n949\u20131953 Attended the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s J\u00f3zsef Grammar School
\n1950 Accepted to MADOME, where he learned from masters of the time; he soon began holding lectures himself and was active as an author on photography
\n1954\u201355 Studied to become an optician and a photographer
\nIn 1957 he became a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers; since then he has been a member of the Jury Committee and chairman of the Museum Committee; he was also the person primarily responsible for saving the Rudolf Balogh bequest; he has served as a guardian and researcher of the oeuvres of several photographers, authoring numerous theoretical essays on photography.
\nColleague of the periodical Csal\u00e1d \u00e9s Iskola<\/em> (Family and School), later working as the illustrator for the journal Gyermek\u00fcnk<\/em> (Our Child).
\n1960\u20131995 Photojournalist of the Hungarian Television\u2019s News program
\n1995 Retired and has since been overseeing the family optician business<\/p>\n
Important solo exhibitions <\/strong>
\n1966 Faces,<\/em> J\u00f3zsef Attila Theatre, Budapest
\n1986 Trees,<\/em> B Galerie, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany
\n1989 Our Churches,<\/em> Hungarian Television Headquarters, Budapest
\n2000 China, From the Great Wall to Shanghai,<\/em> Kondor B\u00e9la Community House, Budapest
\n2001 On the Road \u2013 From the Great Hungarian Plain to England,<\/em> City Hall Gallery, Budapest
\n2005 Jewish Cemeteries,<\/em> International Week of Photography, Plovdiv, Hungarian Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria
\n2006 Jewish Cemeteries,<\/em> Hungary, Museum of Ethnography, Burgas, Bulgaria; 56 \u2013 IMAGE, Hungarian Academy, Rome, Italy, International Week of Photography, Plovdiv, Hungarian Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, Kondor B\u00e9la Community House, Budapest
\n2009 That\u2019s How You Take Pictures,<\/em> Duna Gallery, Budapest
\n2010 On the Road\u2026<\/em> Ga\u00e1l Imre Gallery, Budapest; On the Road\u2026<\/em> Dunapart, Graphisoft Park, Budapest; On the Road\u2026<\/em> Angyalf\u00f6ld, Club and Gallery of \u00dajlip\u00f3tv\u00e1ros, Budapest; Landscapes\u2026 Hommage \u00e0 K\u00e1roly Mark\u00f3 the Elder,<\/em> Duna Gallery, Budapest
\n2015 Processing Memories,<\/em> Budapest Gallery, Budapest<\/p>\n
Important curatorships <\/strong>
\n1981 Picture-Fact (co-curated), Kunsthalle, Budapest
\n1983 Salutation of Ferenc Ha\u00e1r, Budapest Photoclub
\n1987 An Exhibition of Works by K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Sz\u00f6ll\u0151sy, Budapest Photoclub
\n1989 The Magic of Photography (co-curated), Kunsthalle, Budapest<\/p>\n
Important publications <\/strong>
\nFot\u00f3tr\u00fckk\u00f6k, felv\u00e9teli fog\u00e1sok<\/em> (Photography Tricks, Shooting Techniques) (Sevcsik Jen\u0151vel \/ co-authored with Jen\u0151 Sevcsik), M\u0171szaki K\u00f6nyvkiad\u00f3, 1971
\nRapidtechnika<\/em> (Rapid Technology), M\u0171szaki K\u00f6nyvkiad\u00f3, 1974<\/p>\n
Important awards <\/strong>
\nA.F.I.A.P. Award (1954), Sz\u00e9kely Alad\u00e1r Award (1967), Ez\u00fcstgerely-d\u00edj (Silver javelin award, presented by the Hungarian Olympic Committee), F.I.A.P. III. Diaporama Festival I. Prize, MFSZ Best Photo of the Year Award, Best Photo Series of the Year Award (1968), A.F.I.A.P. Award (1969), Merit for Socialist Culture (1981), Award of Excellence presented by the Hungarian Television (1978, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987), Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Hungarian Television (1995), Artist Grand Prize presented by MAOE (Association of Hungarian Creative Artists) (2000), Aranytoll (Golden Quill) Lifetime Award (2005), Ministerial Tribute (2006), MAOE (Association of Hungarian Creative Artists) Aranykazetta-d\u00edj (2010), MFSZ Lifetime Award (2010), Pro Urbe Pestszentl\u0151rinc\u2013Pestszentimre, Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, civilian category (2015)<\/p>\n
Memberships <\/strong>
\nAssociation of Hungarian Photographers (board member), Association of Hungarian Journalists, Association of Hungarian Creative Artists (vice president), Hungart International Rights Management Association (vice president)<\/p>\n
Works in public collections <\/strong>
\nCollection of Contemporary Photography, National Sz\u00e9ch\u00e9nyi Library
\nHungarian Museum of Sports and the Olympics
\nMuseum of Ferenc Erkel, Gyula
\nHungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskem\u00e9t
\nTown Museum, Nagyat\u00e1d
\nGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, USA[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal” position=”center” up=”30″ down=”30″][vc_column_text]\u201cWe know of many artists who create oeuvres worthy of recognition and respect without, in the meantime, taking much notice of life around them. For K\u00e1roly Chochol, in contrast, life and art are one. His work is not simply his passion, it is life itself. This is palpable even when he seeks \u201conly\u201d to bring the viewer joy, \u2018only\u2019 to enrapture his audience with his images. At the same time, he rejects all forms of manipulation, and perhaps this is why we find each of his compositions so shockingly simple and yet monumental.\u201d<\/p>\n
Art historian Ildik\u00f3 D. Udvary on K\u00e1roly Chochol<\/p>\n
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