The sophisticate of Harrogate: Intro: "Gyorgy Janos Simon, born in 1894, was one of a generation of gifted Hungarian artists overrun by the first world war. Like his contemporary, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, he served as an officer on the losing side. Like Moholy-Nagy, Robert Bereny, Bela Czobel, Jozef Nemes Lamperth, Bertalan Por, Lajos Tihanyi, Bela Uitz, and photographers Brassai (Gyula Halusz) and André Kertesz, he found life uncongenial in postwar Budapest. Like all except Uitz he headed west - to Switzerland, while he waited for papers to enter France, then Paris. But he was the only such émigré artist to end his days a British citizen, and in the Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate at that." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
