Sixty years ago, in the March of 1957, a great reckoning wave swept through Hungary, landing thousands of civilians in Kádár’s prisons. Many who’ve survived the fights on the streets and didn’t flee abroad were captured, and were used by the system to set an example. The catchword spreading on posters and graffiti after November 4, 1956, served as a good apropos for imprisoning them:
We restart in March
!
The
portrait series
of
Dávid Juhász
puts young men in the spotlight who transformed the revolution into a war of independence; who weren’t afraid to grab weapons and who, by holding their ground, gave meaning to the developments started by peaceful protesters. Through these portraits, the young painter asks: What took these boys to the streets? While exploring the motivations of man’s psyche and the mechanism of instinctual, unconditional engagement, he also commemorates these revolutionaries with his dramatic artworks.
