When the world of Peter Gabriel’s multi-coloured music and a photographer’s pictorial world meet
SLIDESHOW
I have tried to present – like a tribute before the world-famous musician – how a songwriter’s auditory world and my own visual world are inextricably linked within me. When Peter Gabriel makes music – with lyrics or instrumentally – I respond in the language of pictures. Gabriel’s music also played a decisive role in the dramaturgical rendering of the 245 photos that comprise this slideshow. (70 minutes)
PRESENTATION
For me, it is fairly natural that sounds (as well as the emotions, stories, and moods that they contain) can also be understood on a visual level. Indirectly, of course, since there must be a subjective filter, which (or who) in the present case is myself. Not long ago, I realised that it was thanks to Peter Gabriel (among others) that I became a photographer capable of complementing musical work and making its profundities visible through my artwork.
Peter Gabriel’s 1987 appearance in Budapest was the first authentic concert experience of my adolescence. Around that time, I heard on the radio his incidental music for Alan Parker’s film Birdy, which I recorded on cassette and replayed countless times… When I bought my piano at 17 years of age, one of the pieces I learned by ear was a portion of the music from Birdy. I remember very well the afternoons when I relived again and again that music, which was out-of-this-world for me. Under its influence, the unseen roots of many of my pictures may have begun to grow at that time.
TESTIMONIALS
“When Zoltán studied piano with me, there was a characteristic creativity and invention in his playing and the remarkably witty pieces he wrote. It is present in his photography as well.” | Károly Binder, pianist
“Zoltán persistently pursues the thread of the world’s mysteries. He has a unique method for recreating the world in his own fashion, so one day the Vancsó World may be put on display.” | Klára Szarka, specialist
“Special attention should be paid to those who choose the classic and humble means of photography to express their sovereign inner world, those who chronicle the discovery of our existing world’s hidden moment. Zoltán is one of them.” | Magyar Hírlap (Hungarian Journal publication)