Born in Hungaria , lives in Yougoslavia.
Today in Yugoslavia and Hungary he has the status
of an actually and historically important artist.
Co-founder of the group "Bosch+Bosch"very important
during the period when real socialism made a connection
between Western new'art , the then open Yugoslav scene,
and an art of East European countries.
In his work, he juxtaposes the devices of historical avant-gardes
(Hungarian activism, Yugoslav Dadaism),
American underground popular culture,
and devices of highly intellectually oriented art.
He was between 1970-75 among the pionners of Yugoslav
and Eastern European body art and environmental art
and started then his theorical investigations.
At the same time, he developed literary practice
within the domain of visual and concrete poetry.
At the time when socialism fell apart and when wars started,
Szombathy started to make performances and installations
as a politically engaged artist, and also managed to show
by his body and behaviour (by 'real allegories') the decomposition
of socialism and the appearance of local ethnic wars.
Poet and practician of the immediate art,
he succeeds in embracing the spirit of the momentary time
and instantaneously let us observe it, but in a very different
way.
He also collaborates with the Hungarian poetical review
"Magyar Mühely".
Title: "Chimneys ( Gone with the wind) "
