For their painting “Wir haben versucht, Farben über die Mauer hinübergelangen zu lassen” (“We tried to get colours on to the other side of the Wall”) the Hungarian artist group “Stellvertretende Durstende” (“Representative Thirsty Ones”) threw buckets of paint over the Berlin Wall. The participating group members were Balázs Beöthy, Attila Danka, Balázs Fekete, Elek Is, Attila Nagy, Rolland Pereszlenyi and Tibor Varnagy.
The artist group “Hejettes Szomjazók” (German: “Stellvertretende Durstende” / English: “Representative Thirsty Ones”) was founded in Budapest in 1984. The members, some of whom were self-taught, were Balázs Beöthy (born 1965), Attila Danka, Balázs Fekete (born 1957), Elek Is, Attila Nagy, Rolland Pereszlenyi and Tibor Varnagy (born 1957). Despite having a manifesto, the group worked openly and spontaneously. They used mainly everyday household items and discarded objects for their exhibitions, readings, and concerts. The group broke up in 1992. Almost all the former members live and work in Hungary.
For their 1990 painting “Wir haben versucht, Farben über die Mauer hinübergelangen zu lassen” (“We tried to get colours on to the other side of the Wall”), the members of the Hungarian artist group “Stellvertretende Durstende” (“Representative Thirsty Ones”) tried to throw buckets of paint over the Berlin Wall. Their fifth attempt at the action-art performance succeeded. The painting commemorates the opening of the Iron Curtain in Hungary. In 2009 the artists threw the paint deliberately to restore the work as faithfully to the original as possible.