"Bokros-package"

I dont remember if I had mentioned the young guys putting out posters, for "you be the prime minister" after Gyurcsány has resigned ...

here is an other reaction to the political circus we are experiencing in the last 15 years in Hungary...

Lajos Bokros was the finance minister of the Horn-government between 1995-96 and became infamous for his so called "Bokros-package" - as a result of which he is still today the most unpopular Hungarian politician. The package was the strongest economical constraint-plan after the changes in Hungary.

Now that Ferenc Gyurcsány has resigned from being prime minister of Hungary some people wanted to nominate Lajos Bokros to be the ney prime minister (as a nominee of MDF middle right conservative party)

The sticker is on Király street, on a phone cell.

Other candidates were also related to Bokros, just like György Surányi, who was a co-author of the Bokros-package, anno and is currently chair of the Hungarian National Bank. One of my acquiantences, a middle aged businessman, with a relatively stronger Jewish identity, raised to me the nomination of Mr. Surányi as a problem, since he is Jewish, and a Jews cannot be the prime ministers ... good old fears, and it show a lot about how Jews and Hungarian think about politics and jewish identity.... I find his argument strange, just as, when he was telling me, that he does not eat Chicken-paprika with sourcream, but only because he does not like it, and not because it is not kosher :)

By the way Bokros was also the director of the CEU universtiy, which is one of the few places where you can study in a really progressive environment...

his moustache is real!!! See the Hungarian moustache contest of the New York Hungarian Institute here There use to be really funny videos about it, I jsut cant find it now :)

Getto revival

Street art in the 7th district I saw in the last week.

This one I had before at some point, but here it is more sharp, and not only a stencil, but it was on paper - and had an extra message "The municipality does not have the right to demolish buildings" - my problem is the same with this, as before - street art can be very didactic - and then it looses on its "art" quality. The important thing on street art is that it is an "enigma", an open secret, somthing that is clear an moving but not blunt in a stupid way...

Eger

One of my far far relatives is Rabbi Akiba Eger - who has nothing to do with the Hungarian city of Eger - where I have been on Saturday.
Suprisingly, I found some street art on the streets of Eger. They had a strange, somehow unusual effect in the small town. I realised how much I associate street art with the jungle of big cities ... nevertheless some pieces were really beautiful.

Behind the fan

This is one of my favourite pices around the Jewish district. It is located right next to Szimpla, a ruin Pub in Kazinczy street -the street of the Kazinczy orthodox synagogue and the mikveh. Szimpla was the first among the ruin pubs, it used to be locate on a different place, actually in the same street. It was very simple - just couple beer-benches in the middle of a deserted house, where some gipsy families were about to be kicked out, being squatters. Óvás, an organisation that fights for the preservation of the Jewish district was able to co-operate with Szimpla from the beginning, and the foundation of the alternative place helped them to save that particular building!

Montage modell

montage modell

This is on Wesselényi, on a box, I saw er many time walking to my office ...

popdavec?

looks like popdavec street art.
popdavec works in Sirály.
He made an exhibition lately with the name "street trash" that included photos representing street art, and all kinds of visual street happenings.