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Budapest, December 19, 2005

At the end of December Magyar Telekom’s headquarters at Krisztina körút 55 and the park in front will be illuminated by torrents of light for the fifth time. The contemporary interactive multimedia raypainting installation will be created by Dóra Berkes and Péter Kozma. The work of art will be created at the invitation and with the sponsorship of Magyar Telekom. The company showed an example by giving a free hand to the artists in the project to implement their concept. The outdoor exhibition can be seen from December 19 to January 1.

DorkandKozma, as they are known, achieved worldwide fame and recognition with the artistic procedure called raypainting that they patented: they have projected already on a hotel in the Alps and a several-hundred-year-old Academy of Art. Their spectacular and grandiose works of art come to life through glass painting and high-power projectors. The colors placed on glass panes with mixed technique are always composed in harmony with the given urban surface: brilliantly rich pictures come to life on bridges, walls of houses, surfaces of parks, squares, streets. While Dóra paints the glass pictures, Péter makes the project sculptures that provoke the space. In Budapest earlier they made contemporary works of art out of community places and objects like Millenáris Park, Erzsébet Bridge or most recently the old-new Városháza square where a row of shops was demolished. Their latest work, Beamsphere creates a complex microworld; the intersensual installation extending to every detail once again raises viewers out of the everyday urban viewpoint.

The outdoor exhibition can be seen from December 19, 2005 to January 1, 2006 every day from dusk to midnight on the facade of Magyar Telekom’s headquarters (Budapest I., Krisztina krt. 55). A snack bar and internet terminals will be available at the venue for visitors who can also try out the so-called light-space furniture.