World Premier of
the "Evocation 23" Collection

The "Evocation 23" collection created by the photographer Dorottya Sara and the world famous psychologist Andrew Feldmar and designed by Radmila Roczkov arrives in Los Angeles on November 19, 2004. The L.A. exhibition is the first opening event of the Collection's international road show.

Gallery ASTO and the Artists kindly invite you to the Opening Ceremony of the exhibition

The event is going to be opened by
His Excellency Mr. Ferenc Bosenbacher, Consul General of the Hungarian Republic, Los Angeles, USA

on Friday, November 19th, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
at gallery ASTO (923 E 3rd St. #107, Los Angeles, CA 90013)

ARTISTS' STATEMENT
EVOCATION is a collection of 23 pictures and some words to celebrate the glamour of Nature. Beauty is a gratuitous,
ephemeral, transitory gift, excess of life, squandered heedlessly. The drive for beauty is everywhere. Beauty captivates.
Image & word become focus for meditation. Life as desire.

USERS' GUIDE FOR EVOCATION 23
Art and religion can be throught to bestow significance and beauty on the world of our existence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1995) wished to teach his readers how to see. Faith demands
awareness of the perceptual world as a subject that "enters vitally into the most spiritual zones
of our souls".
Illumination of the soul is thus a product of the illumination of the attention to the world, thereby
enhancing its radiance.
To penetrate is masculine; to surrender is feminine. So often, we heroically enter the world; so
rarely, we allow sights and sounds and textures to overwhelm us.
Evocation 23 asks you to surrender to the image, surrender to the words, surrender to the interplay
of the two. Surrender means total experience : no defense, no critique, fully allowing oneself to be
taken for a ride.
Surrender and catch! Having given myself over to a work of art, letting it have its way with me,
I come back to myself. Am I richer, am I poorer, is it as if nothing really happened at all ?
The 'catch' is the gift, the transformation, the altered state of consciousness I returned with from
my 'surrender' to the piece.
The 23 pieces, called Evocation 23, give you a chance to practice this game of 'Surrender & Catch'.
You might end with an empty net, no fish, a waste of time! We, however, hope that your 'catch' will
be varied and rich.
Just as there is really no rainbow without the human observer's eyes and nervous system, Evocation
23 can not come alive without your eyes, your heart, and your experience.

For further information on Evocation 23 please contact:
Judit Konya. E-mail : evocation_judit@yahoo.com

ARTISTS

Dorottya Sara
Born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1961. She graduated as a teacher. Dorottya represented the Liberal
Party in the Hungarian Parliament between 1990-1998. She opened a communication consultancy
firm the following year. She has practiced photography for several years through which she has
gained a reputation for being a sensitive student of nature. Drawing her inspiration from the
throughts of Andrew Feldmar, her photographs reflect a deep personal understanding of the relationship
between nature and self as part and parcel of their overall design.

Andrew Felmar
Psychologist. Born in Budapest, 1940. WWII tore his family apart, and his parents were deported.
The little boy was hidden by a lady who gave him the pseudonym Andras Igaz (Andrew the Truthful).
After the world war he left Hungary at the age of 16. He graduated in mathematics, then studied
philosophy and psychology. An event in 1976 changed his life significantly - he met the famous
psychiartist R.D. Laing. Andrew immediately became Laing's pupill, colleage and friend until his
professor's death. Andrew Felmar lives, practices and gives lectures in Vancouver now.
He has published a large number of books and articles on psychology. The documentary
"There is Life before Death" - made about him several years ago - is still being screened at
movie theatres in Budapest. His ideas often elicit extreme emotional responses. His supports and
determined ememies throughout the world agree on one point: it is impossible to ignore him.

Radmila Roczkov
Born in 1963 in Hungary. Radmila graduated as a teacher. In 1990 she opened the Roczkov
Gallery in Budapest, which was one of the first privately owned art galleries in the former eastern
block countries to feature artists throughout Europe. Since then, Radmila has worked to bring
this art to a wider audience through the Roczkov Studio, which she has designed to assist in
projects such as stageset design and multimedia features. The studio has worked on the behalf
of artists living now in Europe to present their work in a way that is amenable to their vision.