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Molly Ackerman and Fred Rohde were the first western artists invited by the 'Hungarian Institute for Culture' to participate in the 'Central European Arts Camp' in Tállya, North-East Hungary, in the summer of 1999. Meetings with East-European artists, the local inhabitants and their hospitality, good white wines, parties, exhibitions, interviews with TV and newspapers, only three weeks, but
" a lifetime". This exhibition gives an exciting impression of this emotional and artistically rich period.
Molly Ackerman. Textures and colors are very important for her. In Tállya her colors became even more vivid. She reacts immediately to her surroundings, she says : "I was deeply moved by the Hungarian people... my heart will never be the same".
Local materials and objects found a place in her acrylic paintings and became like icons. Born in New York, traveling around the world, major exhibitions in London, Amsterdam, New York, Woodstock, California, Thailand, Hawaii.
Fred Rohde. Made an intimate document with his LOMO camera. The photographs are portraits, but they are also representing Tállya and especially 'the human being'. Traveling by train he carried his darkroom, in sauna like conditions he printed his 'lomographs' on location. A document with silent poetry about the daily life in a village, images of people in a frame of peace and simplicity. Fred's photographs are published in newspapers and magazines, he gives courses at the Leiden Academic Art Centre. Photographs are in the archives of the Anna Frank Foundation and in the archives of the city of Leiden.
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