Graphic art exhibition "The Tragedy of Man" - Orth István

📚 The Tragedy of Man book, remarkable for its beauty and artistic rigor, established Orth István's name as a graphic artist of exceptional talent. The volume was published by Kriterion Publishing House in Hungarian and German, with a Romanian translation by Octavian Goga also planned.

✏️Orth approached this work as a creative challenge, creating the images for The Tragedy using copperplate engraving (etching and aquatint) and mixed media. The exhibition brings together these works, along with a series of illustrations inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, offering the public a unique visual experience of exceptional quality.

👨‍🎨Artist Istvan Orth emphasizes: "The Divine Comedy, according to Dante Alighieri, is a 'comedy', while the human drama, called 'tragedy' by Madách Imre, explores not only the historical past, but also the future. In our globalized and digitized present, man becomes a personal code, we clone the living world, we lock emotions and spirituality in museums. Madách suggests, without stating it directly, that this could be the end - hopefully only for our civilization. Man can escape into outer space or survive the "catastrophe" underground or at the poles, starting life over again from the beginning.

👤The Tragedy of Man is not only the struggle for ideals in millennia of turmoil, but also the awareness of man's absolute loneliness and the constant struggle for existence. The characters Adam and Eve, together with Lucifer, symbolize the complexity of the human condition and the tension between destiny, freedom, and the trials of existence. ⚖️