A real tribal artist

István's artistic career is exemplary by all means; nevertheless it is not an ordinary career. I first met him at the age of twenty. I got excited when I got to know that he manages a tattoo shop. At that time I attended the third year at the Faculty of Art History at the Miskolc University . I also attended the Cultural Anthropology lessons of Lajos Boglár. I visited the most important galleries and museums of Europe and I was aware of the fact that I was mostly interested in tribal art. But I did not expect to meet a "real tribal artist" three blocks away from my flat in my own hometown. At that time during the middle of the 90s my flat reflected my bohemian lifestyle. Bors Laca, the drummer of Westmister Apu and Mo bands, used to live in the other room with his girlfriend. The guitar player Gerenécs Karesz used to sleep there too if he had missed the bus. We were friendly disposed during the nights, so I searched for my pigmy tape and we amused the retired residents of the dwelling-house with my own hand crafted drums, cow horn rattles and my long flute. Huxi regularly dropped by with his guitar. Györkös Máriusz also appeared and Cselák too who wrote the "Bitter sugar" album for the Auróra band. That year I had an exhibition named Trunk Tribe. I Invited from Miskolc two of my poet genious István Béki and Attila Zemlényi. Their performance, titled the "The identity card picture of the false dead" shocked the audience of the vernissage. It was a good feeling that I could also go somewhere instead of everyone visiting me. We sat around the tattoo chair in István's shop and we listened to free jazz music. He offered me Lark's Tongue in Aspic by King Crimson I gave him the free music of Hermeto Pascoal. When we became inspired we painted everything including the doors and the furniture. We worked on each other's paintings. We did not call it my work or your work as everything was collective. It was more than a friendship; we became brothers.