Peace be with you! – exhibition of drMáriás
2017. Mar. 12. - 2017. May. 14.
Everyone wants peace. “Peace be with you!” – is how not only Christians but also Muslim believers greet those close to them. Practitioners of the Jewish religion also greet each other with the word peace (Shalom).
It was the most important word for the ancient Greeks and then for the Romans. During the Enlightenment, they dreamed of the possibility of ‘eternal peace’ – only to go to war for it. In modern Western history, all the great generals have declared themselves peaceniks: virtuous soldiers who fight only out of necessity, for the sake of the brave new (or old) world, for the sake of the coveted peace. The communist phraseology linked the two words: thus was born the peace struggle.
This is also the number one, longed-for ideal of today’s squabbling Hungarian public life, and it is now being fulfilled in Debrecen. drMáriás’ exhibition finally brings peace. Walking through the pictures, one can meet almost every emblematic figure in the history of modernism who was the greatest peace fighter of his time. We can witness the heroic struggles of politics and art, so that we ourselves can bid farewell to the heroes of the 20th and 21st centuries and wish them eternal peace.
drMariás’ largest exhibition to date presents the glorious past and the bright future – in the perspective of visual arts, literature and music. Fantastic works of art were on display, accompanied by a heavenly serenity, an inner peace of heart and soul. The promise of world peace.
Curator: Gulyás Gábor
Artist: drMáriás Béla