‘Tóth György’
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
Rudolf Balogh Prize-winning photographer György Tóth is a prominent figure of contemporary Hungarian photography. Over the last thirty years his signature slow shutter studies of the human body in motion have been the central component of his oeuvre. Before the 1990s, Tóth was still engaged in documentary photography. Portraits 1985–1991 is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the negatives of the …
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
György Konecsni’s art is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms. He is known by many as a poster artist and a pioneer of modern Hungarian applied graphics, and by others as the co-creator of one of the most cited works of historicist socialist realism, Before the Storm (1951). Beyond exploring Konecsni’s body of works from new perspectives, the authors of this new volume …
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
… and art, as well as in connection to art theory and art trade. Edited by Balázs Zoltán Tóth. Authors: Edit Barta, György Cséka, Attila Horányi, Orsolya Huszár, Krisztina Kovács, Balázs Zoltán Tóth, and Iringó Tóth-Gödri The book was designed by Imre Kiss. The book is available for purchase at the bookstore and webshop of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery.
Networking the Peripheries / World Art Post: International Artist Stamp Exhibition
At OFF-Biennale Budapest György Galántai (1941), artist and organizer of the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio (1970–1973), has been continuously expanding his international mailing list since the 1970s, through which he initially sent his own publications. In 1973, the exhibition Text(s) (organized by Dóra Maurer and Gábor Tóth) featured works by Uruguayan artist Clemente Padín (1939), as well as works by Western and …