The Hungarian National Gallery continues its sequel of influential figures in Hungarian art. In 2014, works of art by one of the most influential modern and avant-garde artist Endre Bálint are to be shown. The 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist is an excellent occasion for a comprehensive exhibition. Endre Bálint was one of the most enigmatic artists in the past century. The secret is laying in the versatility of Bálint and is also the source of the difficulty in interpreting his works. Bálint often chose various means of expression to tell us what was going on in him and in the world. He did paintings, object and photo montages, collages, monotypes and also wrote poems. His oeuvre is unique in its versatility and originality.

What makes his person more significant is that he was always considered important by his contemporaries. He was among the founders of the European School that was the forerunner of the spirit in Lajos Vajda's works. He was a sustained artist but often forbidden during the Kádár-era. Still, he wrote essays on art, speeches for exhibition opening ceremonies. He was patron of new artists (Lili Ország),an idol for the younger generation. He visited Paris a few times, in various phases of his artistic periods. His individual style really ripened in 1957 – 1962 when he was in Paris: 'associational unconscious confession' He originated the possibility of emotional self expression.

The exhibition is to reveal the art of Endre Bálint with a similar, honest a dn authentic approach. Many of the paintings were borrowed from Paris so that we can provide a most exploited interpretation of his art. Works of art by his contemporaries from Hungary (Lajos Vajda, BélaCzóbel ) and from abroad (Braque, Chagall, Picasso, Max Ernst) as well as documentaries, photos, films and items from his life will be shown. There will be several in the nearly three-hundred works that are shown for the first time.

Endre Bálint oeuvre is a unique self-portrait, an art of various layers ever changing dream-death world which is only possible to solve when we fight through his hieroglyph system . A book, a monograph was published to accompany the exhibition in which the 'Bálint Code' is analysed. In addition, we have his poems and writings to help in deciphering his art. Thus, the poems, of which have never been published, and the paintings are paralleled.