This season is launched with a special visual art exhibition by the European Central Gallery of the Duna Museum in Esztergom. The exhibition entitled Bestiárium selects from works of art by the graphic artist Ádám Lévai of Tata, from pictures made in the past two years.

The works to be shown for the first time in Esztergom make up three series, made with custom graphics. What is common in them, though, is that their making was all influenced by literature. All three series (Rinoceros, 2009-2010; Faun, 2010; Equus, 2011) were made for theatre commissions, nevertheless, they all display signs of strong inner inspiration.

The works can be considered as further studies of the given topics, the lines are specific of Ádám Lévai. The moves give new meaning, encompass, and create several meanings, just like speech does, words, or moves on stage. Graphics by Ádám Lévai are children of a special combination of art forms, in search of the very inner motifs of man, may that be about relations of man-man (Eugéne Ionesco: Rhinoceros, man-animal (Peter Shaffer: Equus), or the animal in man (Duda Éva Company: Faun, National Dance Theatre, 2010.) This, as Ádám Lévai puts its, is a 'metamorph game' that creates a special transgression between universal questions, self-reflexive manifestations, and also various aesthetic qualities.

We gather here to stray from accepted conventions, from the state of mind that encompass us, from the history we believe in, from people authorised by the public in large. A man enters the space in front of us: but it is another animal, another Earth. Valere Novarina