Béla Kása was born in Pécs in 1952 and graduated in photography from the College of Fine Arts in Cologne in 1979. His photographic journals of folk art were inspired by his travels in Transylvania in 1973, during which time he fell under the spell of the region's centuries-old traditions and folk music. He learned to play the viola and double bass and began to collect folk music, while taking pictures of village folk musicians. After returning to Hungary in 1982, he became one of the key f...igures in Hungarian folk music and his photographs have brightened CD covers, magazine pages and books ever since. His photo album entitled Erdélyi zenészek (Musicians of Transylvania) is considered an eternal pantheon of the region's musicians. The secret of his characteristic portraits lies in his ability to forge close relationships. "The exposure is made on the brain, the soul and the heart,” he believes. "My great task in life is to record for myself, my children and posterity a world that even I was only able to admire, rather than participate in, as I was born too late. But I want the generations to follow me to witness some of it too.”
For this exhibition as part of A Celebration of Folk Music, Béla Kása allows a glimpse into the everyday lives of Transylvanian musicians. Sometimes we see joyful revellers at weddings and christenings, on other occasions - when the time for mourning comes - moving stills of a funeral vigil or a burial. His photography has also decorated the Roma tent at the Sziget Festival for years, and the archive of the Budapest Museum of Ethnography contains 200 of his images.
Opening: 18 January 2014, 4 pm
The exhibition will be opened by István Berán, representative director of the National Dance House Association
Presented by: Presented by: Palace of Arts
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