Iran-based artist wins Hungary award
The prominent Iran-based Hungarian artist Gizella Varga-Sinai has been granted the Parallel Culture Award of the Media Wave Festival in Szombathely, Hungary.
Varga-Sinai will receive the award during the 2011 edition of the Hungarian festival which will run from June 9 to 11 in the city of Szombathely.
“The festival will grant me the award for my efforts and achievements in connecting two cultures,” the 67-year-old painter told ISNA.
Varga-Sinai also said that some of her video arts along with a collection of 15 paintings from her 'Travel Diary' collection including her latest artwork would be presented in the festival.
“My recent work is a self-portrait and depicts me as a Hungarian traveler in Iran,” she explained, adding that the 'Travel Diary' collection has been showcased in Austria and Finland as well.
Varga-Sinai will deliver a speech on the activities of female Iranian artists as part of the MEDIAWAVE Film Forum 2 section of the festival.
The artist’s daughter Samira Sinai will also take part in the event, staging a performance about her mother’s immigration to Iran as a young woman.
Written and directed by Samira, the performance will be staged in three languages, featuring Samira in the lead role and Gizella’s favorite poems.
Wife of leading Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai, Gizella is among the few non-Iranian artists whose works are mostly inspired by Iranian culture and art.
Born in Hungary in 1944, Varga-Sinai studied art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and came to Iran in 1967 in pursuit of what she described as her 'nostalgia for the Orient.'
She became a member of the Society of Iranian Painters in 2001, while tutoring young artists and organizing workshops in Iran and abroad.
Varga-Sinai has displayed her works in Iran and many other countries such as Austria, China, the US, Finland, Germany, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, India and Turkey.
Source: presstv.ir
