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The title of Márk Fridvalszki’s first solo exhibition at Vintage Gallery elevates the name of a 1967 festival that took place in the UFO Club, a centre of British counterculture – as a travelling utopia into the Present. The UFO metaphor, becoming central in Fridvalszki’s recent works, was capable of condensing the whole countercultural zeitgeist into itself during these years: the “seductive strangeness” of radical changes and alternative lifestyles due to the social, art and technology revolutions around 1968, dimensions of consciousness opening through psychedelics or Eastern spiritualism, …