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GRÓF Ferenc – GYENES Zsófia: (Dis)organigram – State Gallery Company, 2022
… weekly jury panels for evaluating and purchasing the submitted works of its members. From the 1970s onwards, the Gallery’s operations were subject to considerable criticism: it was continually losing money and a significant proportion of the artworks it had purchased from its members were never sold to a third party. Despite several attempts at market-oriented reform, after the change of regime, the Gallery Company was split into several parts with its real estate and art assets …
Artworks at KEMKI
… from a historical, institutional context. The latter works were produced at the turn of the ’70s in the enamelware factory of Bonyhád, which is still operational today, and where much of the public art of Hungarian neo-avantgarde artists (including those affiliated with the Pécs Workshop) were created. The tapestries were made using a tufting gun, employing a hybrid of industrial technology and handicraft. By invoking the artists’ earlier experiments and installations (which also …
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