Nearly 100 artists submitted more than 200 works to the Goldilocks Zone, a national art competition organised by the House of Arts Veszprém.
In the first round the jury selected eight works of art each for the exhibition in the László Szilágyi Street Gallery.
The exhibiting artists are: Imre Debreczeni, Imre Farkas, Péter Hecker, László Karácsonyi, Barbara Lichner and Endre Lisányi, Henrik Martin, Luca Oberfrank, Rita Süveges
The main prize of the exhibition was awarded to Henrik Martin.
Goldilocks Zone
Today there are more and more announcements of the discovery of planets in nearby solar systems observed by astronomers, even suitable for the formation of life on Earth.
Orbiting planets outside our Solar System, i.e. around alien stars, are known as extrasolar planets or exoplanets for short.
For centuries, the existence of exoplanets was only a scientific hypothesis, although astronomers generally believed in their existence, their frequency and similarity to the planets of the Solar System was completely obscured, and later they were still only dealt with in the genre of science fiction. The first confirmed discoveries were made in the early 1990s.
The habitable zone is the region around a star that is at a sufficient stellar distance to allow the persistence of liquid water, an essential condition for life as we know it, on the orbiting bodies.
The habitable zone has also been known by scientists since the 1970s as the Goldilocks Zone, a name taken from an old children's story (known in English as The Girl with the Golden Hair and the Three Bears), where the golden-haired girl has to choose between different things, rejecting the extreme large or the too hot or too cold, and settling for the one that is just right.
The exhibition was made possible with the support of the National Cultural Fund.
