One of the greatest painters József Fodor was born eighty years ago, on 9 December 1935. The oeuvre of the artist who died in 2007 is presented through one hundred and fifty works, ready to record the world consciously.

"I'll take the role of a chronicler when I show the slow but inexorable changes taking place in the environment. [...] My pictures directly or indirectly have the MAN portrayed who converts and shapes the environment, the landscape and who is constantly shaped by the landscape in which he lives." - explaianed József Fodor. According to the organizer of the memorial exhibition, Balázs Feledy it is important to direct attention on the work of one of themost significant artists born in Hódmezővásárhely.

Beginning 1958, József Fodor gradually developed his individual, personal style, which considered the "classic" artistic realism of the Plains his roots. His mature picturesque approach to art remained perception centred, but also developed a dynamic picturesqueness steeped with expressiveness, which portrayed man and scenery with brave colours. Fodor put down the words in the catalogue published to accompany his first exhibition in 1964 from which the title of the exhibition in Budapest this year was borrowed. ' It naturally follows that I love the land of my birth and where I spent my childhood with all the creatures that grew from its soil. [...] The phenomena, objects and people in my drawings and paintings shown at the exhibition are reflected from my perspective. This is how I see the world.'

The exhibition with nearly one-hundred and fifty works of art of various themes is presented on the entire ground floor of the Plains Gallery The visitors will see landscapes, genre paintings, portraits, human portrays, room interiors, still-lifes by József Fodor, as well as pictures related to the cultural history of the town of Hódmezővásárhely.