Auer House, Veszprém

My generation somehow operated to the West, says Attalai, who entered the artistic circuits of the period through the post: He sent his conceptual works in envelopes to fellow artists in the West and asked for information about contemporary art, corresponding with artists such as Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns and John Chamberlain, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Carolee Schneemann, Sol LeWitt, Christo, Hanne Darboven, Richard Long, John Baldessari, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Anthony Caro, Robert Filliou, Claude Viallat, Joseph Kosuth and Dennis Oppenheim. All of these artists have letters in Attalai's archives, and he sometimes received publications and works of art from them. He also had contacts with curators like Harald Szeemann. Attalai's work as an art writer was also outstanding, publishing highly important theoretical texts on the changing concept of art, which are also of great help in the theoretical and historical contextualisation of the artist's work.