A Tradition Reborn – The Three Ravens Gallery

This was the Three Ravens, later renamed Eckermann, which later sadly closed down. The original Three Ravens – A Három Holló – was an important meeting point for Hungarian artists and intellectuals like Endre Ady around the year 1900. Though the café at its Andrássy address is no longer in business, the Three Ravens Gallery intends to carry on its tradition of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. Anderson, a figurative photographer, and Zeigfinger, an abstract painter, compare and contrast their visual traditions on the walls of the new gallery.

Franc Anderson grew up in Belfast during the worst period of the Northern Ireland Troubles. He is a graduate engineer and has been a professional photographer for over a decade. He was a runner and badminton player at the national level in Ireland, and remains a keen runner and mountaineer. His black-and-white Budapest cityscapes show meticulous composition and tonal control in distilling the resonance of a space into a single image.

Stephen Zeigfinger, internationally recognized abstract artist, has been painting for 60 years! The last four years have seen him open two galleries in Budapest, which although successful, tied him to a schedule and were eventually closed. Happily he met Franc Anderson, well-known Irish photographer, and together they have opened Three Ravens Gallery, on Király utca. This venue allows both artists flexibility and creative interchange. Steve is a visceral painter, in the tradition of Pollack and Mitchel; the final result being a function of current mood and where the painting takes the artist. Steve challenges the emotions of the viewer, inviting interaction and flashes of repressed memories. Color and energy are central to his work.

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