Krisztina Baranyi, the mayor of Ferencváros, published a new cover photo on her official Facebook page on October 23, the holiday of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle. However, the image depicting one of the works of this year's ARC exhibition stirred up a lot of dust among commentators, Index .
Zoltán Sípos's work Vissza, made for the 23rd ARC exhibition, was apparently so liked by the IX. to the district mayor, that on October 23 he changed his Facebook cover photo to Krisztina Baranyi did not add anything to the picture, only the name of the artist and the title of the work.
However, the commentators did not like the fact that the politician shared his work, which won the award for the most disturbing work of this year's ARC exhibition, on the national holiday. Ádám Hamberger, the main supporter of the Ferencváros football team, was also angry with Baranyi.
In his comment, the leading supporter wrote: he thinks this is Krisztina Baranyi
[...] has sunk so deep - even though it has been quite good in terms of depths - that I can only ask for one thing on behalf of myself and my proud colleagues from Ferencváros. Close your eyes, think of those young, proud Ferencváros guys who gave their lives for their COUNTRY and FREEDOM in 1956.
Another commenter found it downright "disgusting" that the politician chose this image as his cover image, especially on October 23.
According to him, it is stomach-turning "to use the execution of many hundreds of people, the imprisonment of many thousands of people, the destruction of their lives and the celebration of this with some cheap visual joke to tell the world, for a few likes and political popularity, that we are the problem with the current system".
Among the comments, several people criticized the politician's decision and did not consider it appropriate that he chose this particular image as the cover image of his official Facebook page. There was also someone who wrote: this is disrespectful to the heroes of that time.
Cover photo: Zoltán Sípos' work entitled "Back" at the 23rd ARC exhibition. Krisztina Baranyi remembered the heroes of 1956 with this picture