‘ADK’
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Lili Ország), 2022
… printing plate—to create the images of the Labyrinth. The object under inventory number KEMKI ADK 21300/1981/L/34 served as the starting point for Albert’s work. The character of the strange hybrid shape of the blueprint-labyrinth-human—invoking the essence of Lili Ország’s art—is amplified by the bluish-toned colour scheme, as well as by a subsequent layer of enlarged, architectonic forms (also originating from the printed circuit board). The portrait-oriented enamel panel on the right …
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 (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… (1844–1900) constitutes the oldest part—and perhaps one of the most valuable portions—of the KEMKI ADK collection. In addition to the documents, it also contains his relics: his furniture, the plaster cast of his right hand, his palette, his mourning ribbon, and the silver laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, in the present work, appears as a silhouette. The collection …
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 …
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
… National Gallery in 2015. As a museologist at the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK), she is mainly focused on the processing of the archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts. Her research interests include the Hungarian art and institutional history of the second half of the 20th century, and more specifically, the public and poster art of the period, as well as industrial design and object culture. She is a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, a …