TEHRAN -- Gizella Varga Sinai, the Tehran-based Hungarian artist, will take a collection of her paintings back to her homeland in Budapest.

The collection will go on display in an exhibition called “Travelogue” during the Budapest Spring Festival running from April 12 to May 16, the artist told the Tehran Times via an email on Wednesday.

“When I look back on the journey I have taken, which has lasted almost half a century, I feel like the heroine of a tale, who has found treasures and is now returning to her parents’ home to show them with pride,” reads part of the artist’s travelogue.

It continues, “It was a long, long journey, exciting, beautiful, full of adventure, sometimes dangerous but certainly worth it! I studied the East with Hungarian roots, a Hungarian wistfulness.

“A door was opened for me in Iran, I came to know the life and culture of a people with a long history, and through my art, I became the integral part of a vigorous art scene that was in search of new eras!

“This exhibition is like an autobiography. It wasn’t merely an exotic journey. It wasn’t merely getting to know foreign lands and a new, magical poetry – Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Ferdowsi. It was also a spiritual journey”, the artist added.

Gizella is married to the renowned filmmaker Khosrow Sinai. She came to Iran about 50 years ago.

Photo: “From West to East” by Gizella Varga Sinai

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