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This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The art of Pál Kepenyes has become universal and appreciated by the whole world for its unparalleled richness the Secretary of State for Culture and Innovation (KIM) emphasized on Thursday in Szolnok at the opening of the exhibition titled Pál Kepenyes – Lover of the Sun The secretary of state described the artist’s life as ‘a storybook-like journey, a peculiar blend of tragedy and soaring highs.’ According to the state secretary, when one thinks of Kepenyes, who became world-famous as Pal Kepenyes, and has been described as the ‘Picasso of sculpture’, the first thing that comes to mind is his ‘mischievous, boyish, infinitely kind smile’. Pál Kepenyes was first removed from the School of Decorative Arts in 1949 by the Communist regime for being a ‘class alien’, and the next year was sentenced to ten years of forces labour on trumped-up charges. He was freed in 1956, and fought in the revolution, after the crushing of which he fled Austria, then to Paris, and finally to Acapulco in Mexico. ‘In this conspiratorial, sunny smile lies the passionate affirmation of life, deep humanism, and unwavering optimism. Behind it was the determined young man from Kondoros who moulded and shaped his scanty prison rations of bread into small statuettes. He told the dark, cold walls that against the overflowing talent, they had no chance; art cannot be confined, trampled upon, because it carves out a path for itself even in the midst of deepest despair,’ she expressed. She noted that what had been characteristic of this young artist is that he had learnt French from his cellmate to such an extent that he had been able to complete his studies in Paris. Závogyán opined that it speaks volumes about Kepenyes’s tribulations that he viewed his forced labour in the mines as hopeful compared to prison. In the cold and bleak cell, he vowed that he would one day live in a sunny place where he would never be cold, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word. Love helped him make a choice: he settled in Mexico, where he built his dream house overlooking the bay of Acapulco. The house itself is also an exciting work of art, heralding his ‘unstoppable creative passion and zest for life to the whole world,’ she pointed out. Though Pál Kepenyes was physically distant from his homeland, he never ceased to be thoroughly Hungarian The artist passed away in 2021 in Acapulco, and was laid to rest in Kondoros after conquering the whole world. He brought glory and fame to his Hungarian homeland, his nation, and all of Kondoros, therefore, it is our duty and responsibility to cherish the tangible and spiritual heritage of our famous compatriot, to evoke his special figure, and to preserve his memory—the secretary of state highlighted. The exhibition, which features Pál Kepenyes’s small sculptures, life-size statues, and large-format photographs of his works, will be open until 9 March at the Aba-Novák Agora Cultural Center. Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political, philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective. Play Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds8m Presented by The most benefit is for the elderly people They say that the young ones bring the outside world inside their lives and their building and he thinks he is on to a very good thing He is one of six Dutch students living rent-free in the Humanitas Deventer retirement home about an hour east of Amsterdam Jurriën works 30 or so hours a month around the retirement home arranging dinner at times but generally just spending time with elderly residents and 'being a good neighbour' I visit my neighbour for an hour or so,' he says the cost of aged care in the Netherlands continues to rise; so too the cost of student housing It was with those two considerations in mind that the CEO of Humanitas Deventer 'I want to be the warmest and nicest house where every elderly person wants to live,' says Sijpkes then there is a social return on investment against loneliness assessing their backgrounds and motivations for wanting to work at the aged care home she says the students quickly form a special bond with residents 'It's a very good thing to connect young and old people together They can offer each other very nice things in life,' she says 'The most benefit is for the elderly people They say that the young ones bring the outside world inside their lives and their building.' Jurriën loves living at the home and is free to come and go as he pleases but I can handle myself in that situation.' While Gea Sijpkes says she developed the program purely for her own retirement home she can't see any reason why the concept couldn't travel beyond the Netherlands to Australia they have a lot of interest in the young ones They always want to know whether they have girlfriends and whether they are staying overnight,' she laughs 'They have conservations that are much more like everyday life than when they are only a group of elderly people talking 'Now they are talking about the music party that Jurriën goes to in Amsterdam!' RN Drive takes you behind the day’s headlines, with an engaging mix of current affairs, analysis, arts and culture from across Australia and around the world. A retirement home in the Netherlands says pairing young students with elderly residents has brought about great results.(Getty Images: Kondoros Eva Katalin) Published: 13 Dec 2024Fri 13 Dec 2024 at 6:00am Published: 13 Dec 2024Fri 13 Dec 2024 at 5:15am Published: 13 Dec 2024Fri 13 Dec 2024 at 5:40am Download the ABC listen app to text and call your favourite live radio The Hungarian road-building industry has reached a historic moment as the westernmost section of the M44 motorway was opened in the Kecskemét area on 15 April Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the event The new section will be opened to traffic today The 32.3-kilometre section between Szentkirály and Kecskemét was built by Hódút Építő Kft. After the completion of the Ministry of Construction and Transport’s project a four-lane road from the M5 motorway to Békéscsaba a total of 127 kilometres of four-lane roads were completed between Békéscsaba and the M5 motorway in a series of projects launched 8.5 years ago: 18 km between Kondoros and Békéscsaba and 62 km between Tiszakürt and Kondoros The 10 km Lakitelek-Tiszakürt section was built together with the new Tiszaug bridge followed by 4.6 km between Szentkirály and Tiszakürt and the final step was the 32.3 km Kecskemét-Szentkirály section opened today which has a comprehensive and consistent development background: the foundation stone of the longest section (62 km Tiszakürt-Kondoros) was laid in October 2019 handed over the road in a decade-old record The last time such a long section of motorway was completed in the country at the same time was in 2002 and there has been no precedent since then The next milestone was reached a year later was opened for traffic by Duna Aszfalt Zrt Built as the fourth four-lane Tisza bridge in Hungary the total length of the crossing is 556 metres and the ellipsoidal gateway makes the bridge structure unique in Europe Hodut Epito completed the latest stretch for gross HUF 185bn (EUR 450m) The project is not completely finished because although Békéscsaba can be reached from Budapest by motorway the last junction from Békéscsaba is not yet fully motorway accessible a motorway junction at the junction of the M5 motorway and the five main roads is currently being built by Hódút Építő Kft According to MagyarÉpítők more than 1,500 people worked on the project which was built with almost HUF 543 billion (EUR 1,31bn) of domestic funding over nine years Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed that since 2010 the length of motorways has increased one and a half times M3 and M7 motorways will be widened to three lanes allowing people to travel between western and eastern Hungary without going through Budapest According to a press release issued by ÉKM for the press event the 14-unit artificially-engineered section has been built with the crossing national roads and dirt roads above the motorway the Cegléd-Szeged railway line has been routed under the planned motorway the Csillik Rest at the beginning of the section has been equipped with motion-sensitive street lighting For those travelling in the direction of Budapest (on the left side of the section) parking spaces with solar shading brackets have been added to reduce the rest area’s overheads and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved