Párhuzamos Kronológiák / Parallel Chronologies

I don’t believe that I would be able to list ten events that have not already become a part of the canon, and which other participants have not already mentioned. Thus, I would like to propose just a single action, which established an interesting and new relationship to the official art, as to a certain "international" scene, and this is János Major’s one-man demonstration against Victor Vasarely’s exhibition opening at the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle in 1969. I heard first of the event in 2001, though I unfortunately cannot remember now where I read of it, or who it was who might have described it to me.
It is written about in Géza Perneczky’s Samizdat volume, entitled "Hogy van Avantgarde, ha nincsen" (How is [there] Avant-garde, if there is not): “The process of opposite direction, the “mission” of the West is not always successful in its outcome in the East either. When Vasarely’s 1969 life-work exhibition opened filling all the rooms of the Budapest Kunsthalle and ministers and cultural politicians welcomed the pope of nonfigurative art, János Major, one of the most talented (and most humble) members of the new avant-garde, appeared with a small “pocket-size portable sign”. Whenever he saw an acquaintance in the crowd, he took it out, cast a glance about to be sure the uninitiated were not watching, and held it up: “Vasarely go home!” Could a western artist understand how little this gesture had to do with envy, aggression or a thirst for professional success, that it was dictated rather by loyalty and self-irony?”