András Lengyel was born in 1952 in Zirc. Between 1972 and 1976, he studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, first at the Painting, and later on at the Graphic Arts Department. He completed his graduate studies between 1976 and 1977. He was a founding member of the Rózsa Circle, founded in 1976 at the Rózsa Café opposite the university building. His works won numerous awards, such as the Honorary Mention Award at The Future Theatre Competition, Pompidou Center, Paris (1977); the award of the Graphic Biennale in Miskolc (1985); the Derkovits Scholarship (1986-89); the award of the 10th Photography Biennale in Esztergom (1996); and the Munkácsy and Balassi Prize (1997).
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Sky of Istanbul
The work was created during a trip to Istanbul: Lengyel took pictures of the sky on both the European and the Asian sides of the Bosporus. This is the meeting point of two continents that we may think of as two separate cultural units, yet the sky above them remains the same.
