At the Laser Theater of Budapest, a spider
web woven from thousands of subtle lines mingles
with stacks of violet blue and emerald green
sparkling points. Quickly changing forms float
and turn into each other, beams of light cross
the space, glittering stars hover in the air.
It's as if a fairy has revived the paintings of
an abstract exhibition. The works of the artist,
who used only clear, unmixed colors and
microscopic lines, would step out of the frames
to occupy a new and incomprehensible dimension.
Can music be painted? Can music be composed to
light? In the fantasy world of art the answer has
always been yes to those questions in a thousand
various ways. This is how the laser multimedia
was born, an electric poem created from the
abundance of colors, forms and sounds by the
lovers of light
For 14 years the Laser Theater- the only
permanent light-theater on the European
continent- in the Nepliget has been presenting
more than 400 performances a year, against a
background of music ranging from Beethoven to
Queen, from Ravel to Vangelis. Choreography,
design and the special effects programmed into
computers, are revived by the laserists.
A technically very complicated game starts and
its final result is unbelievably simple. |
Everything is abstraction here, and still,
through our senses the sight penetrates into our
feelings.
Small children remain still for a whole hour,
transfixed by the spectacle. Adults' eyes begin
to water. "Though it is so out of my
everyday experience," confessed student Edit
Warholik, after Vangelis, "I found myself
plunging into my most inner self. It made me
think of my life at crucial points, of my
relationship with God. It's amazing how deeply I
was moved."
"We just want to tell you: we do love what
is beautiful and exciting, and cannot resist the
temptation to show it to you", says the
leader of the light art group, Gyorgy Hegedus.
200 meters from the Nepliget station of the
metro's third line in the Planetarium building,
you can enjoy the Laser Theater shows on each
Saturday at 6 p.m.- Vangelis; Thursday and
Saturday at half past 7 p.m.- Queen; and Friday
at half past 7 p.m.-Pink Floyd
Tickets are available at the Planetarium, tel:
134 1161 or at the Laser Theater ticket office,
on Baros utca 18, tel: 118 6344. The
Budapest Sun, May 12-16, 1994
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