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5/22/2011
Iran-Based Artist Wins Hungary Award
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Gizella Varga-Sinai |
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Tehran, May 20, 2011: The prominent Iran-based Hungarian artist Gizella Varga-Sinai has been granted the Parallel Culture Award of the Media Wave Festival in Szombathely, Hungary.
Tehran, May 20, 2011: 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.
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