CAFFART FINE ART ASSOCIATION

A little extra to understand the name Caffart

"......This is when the cafard comes in. The desert madness. In India it's called a rampage. The African version of the disease has a longer incubation period. The first stage is increased irritability. The second stage is the urge to act. Go! Take action! Escape! It's great to work up a great war spirit and stand up to the captain with it. Learn English or invent a new desert telegraph. The third stage is melancholy. To ponder wordlessly, sadly over old domestic episodes, abandoned lovers, dear home landscapes. The final stage of the illness is the so-called run amok. Without any transition from one moment to the next one of the soldiers plunges his bayonet into his comrade and then he goes for it! Kill! In such a case he is usually killed by a good bullet. If he's restrained and tied up, it only prolongs his agony, because within hours he'll be dead of a brain spasm anyway. In the penultimate stage there is still an excuse. Sometimes an attack, a sudden change of garrison or other unexpected event blows away the melancholy with which one infects the other. In many cases the disease erupts in bloody riots. They then slaughter their superiors and ride off singing into the desert, raiding some oasis, until somewhere a band of Spahi comes galloping in and disarms them. "

Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard) The Yellow Garnizon

"In the past 5 years the Association has become a leading phenomenon in the field of contemporary Hungarian art. The presentations of this extremely heterogeneous, sometimes seemingly counterpointing group behind its eloquent name create an opportunity to look at the exciting tendencies and crossroads of contemporary art. Masters and disciples in their own time, in their own space, in their own silence seeking their own paths, their own destinies. They do not follow blindly, they do not study. They just do what every artist must do in this intrusive world prone to dilettantism....."  

Zita Kovács art historian