Attila Kleb: Muralismo

Attila Kleb: Muralismo. "...Painted backgrounds and models. It could be a studio, just like the one with frescos in Mai Manó House, the Hungarian House of Photography but apparently it is not. In Sardinia the painted walls face the street and the models depicted by both the artist and the photographer appear in front of the special backgrounds not to have their portrait taken but to say have a drink of good wine in the pub. Or to discuss the recent football match with their buddies at the square, or to set off for harvesting orange in the grove, to go to the shop, the doctor, the school... As this extraordinary gallery is their home. Attila Kleb knows it well, too, as to some extent it is his home as well. When chance and reporter's curiosity took us for the very first time to San Sperate, the Sardinian village famous for its murals, we got tied there for life. We were hosted by the very artists - a sculptor and a painter - who started to don the houses of their home village in frescos in the 1960's. We hoped and felt then, that occasion was not the only one for us. Irrevocally we fell in love with the island of the lean, hard, proud men and tender, happy and fast spoken women."