Attila Csáji, painter, light-artist, holographer. Works with laser since the mid-1970s; co-founder of the group FOTON ART in the Central Research Institute of Physisc of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Explores the pictorial potentialities of the coherent laser beam, combined with a complex optical system of transformation. Designs and realizes light- choreographies and laser enviroments (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Finlandia Palace, Helsinki; Bella Center Copenhagen; Messepalais Vienna: Messepalais Stuttgart etc)
His holographies are directed by an interest in the specific features
of this medium (transparent, interlocking volumes, novel spatial experiences,
color modulations)
Between 1961 and 1987 participation in more than hundred international
exhibitions among them ELECTRA 83 in Paris and LICHT BLICKE 1984 in Frankfurt
am Main.
At present, Felow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and, supported by a grant of the Soros Foundation, studies light-art and holography in the United States.