‘ADK’
"Our House" Collection
… and interviews with artists), official logs, and exhibition visitors’ books. At the time of KEMKI ADK’s establishment and its relocation to Szabolcs Street, a number of related documents also turned up and are presently being catalogued. The exhibition documentation of “Our House” is currently stored in approximately 300 boxes. The material documents more than 1600 exhibitions, with the continuous addition of new shows, as well as documents surfacing retrospectively, yet to be archived. We …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally belonged to the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, but have, since 2014, been kept at ADK’s predecessor, the Data Archives of the Hungarian National Gallery. The mosaic of the Esperanto Fountain is, on the one hand, an early and qualitative …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Tandori), 2022
… along with his letters to Dezső KORNISS (1908–1984), have been entrusted to the care of the KEMKI ADK by the Hungarian National Bank. The manuscript pages used for the enamel triptych (1980) contain Tandori’s typed calligrams – the VORIZONTAL-HERTICAL (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. MNB.ADT.2017.2.198.1) and two versions of the Heraclitus Memorial Column (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. MNB.ADT.2017.2.262.2, 3)[1]. “The Heraclitus motif shows up several times. In my first Heraclitus piece (from 1968) the text …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (József Rippl-Rónai), 2022
… lamps, embroidered tapestries, ceramics, and glassware—were designed by Rippl-Rónai (KEMKI ADK 5118/1950/I/ 132, 134, 142). The butterfly in the fourth piece reproduces the main motif of the cover design for the 1925 edition of Zsigmond Móricz’s book Butterfly – Idyll , published by Athenaeum, Budapest (KEMKI ADK 26007_2020_39a). By turning their surfaces from concave to convex, Albert “inverts” these compact elements of a past time—which have only survived in fragments—and …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (László Moholy-Nagy), 2022
… overall dimensions: 80 x 107 cm For this composition, Ádám Albert used a letter (Inv. No. KEMKI ADK MNB-NL-1175/2015) connected to the oeuvre of László Moholy-Nagy, one of the great pioneers of Hungarian photography. The material of which the letter comprises a part was acquired by the Hungarian National Bank from the artist’s nephew, Levente Nagy in 2015. The collection primarily aids in scholarly research. In addition to lists of artworks, books and other publications, it also includes a …