Kornél Szilágyi and Nándor Hevesi work together under the pseudonym Igor & Ivan Buharov already from 1995. They have been producing and directing several usually 8mm and 16mm movies but also animations and documentaries. They have also been involved in the creation of several music projects and film music. Their work is always dancing on the edge of fine art and cinematic art. In 1995, together with Vasile Croat and István Nyolczas, they have formed the 40 Labor “Multiartist” Group which made performances, events, actions, exhibitions, concerts, multimedia works.
They formed the Pop Ivan band in Budapest in 1998. Music is characterised by a certain permeability between styles and atmospheres : one can discover in their works archaic Moldvan melodies, Latin rhythms, elements of the modern free-jazz and of contemporary compositions. At their performances they frequently use visual effects: the audience can watch super 8 or/and 16 mm films parallel to listening to the music of Pop Ivan. Since 2000 they have been giving concerts in Europe, have played in Belgium, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria the Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, and Georgia.
In Školská 28 gallery Buharov's will screen special selection of short movies and will make concert of crypto-anarchist jazz with necro-realist beats. The music sounds like humans do but sometimes like animals, suddenly like plants, more like spirits or like stones crashing ping-pong balls with antennas...in a romantic way. It will be extremely liberating!
