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György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the negatives of the collection to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK), rendering available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images …
GRÓF Ferenc: Somewhere between 0 and 1 (Hungarian National Painting Grey), 2016–2023
… enamel work invokes the artist’s 2012 piece entitled State of Shades, found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.[2] At KEMKI, the “colour average” of the latter work—having been determined by digitally blending the colours of paintings held at the Hungarian National Gallery, in the “interpretation” of the Bonyhád artists—is given a slight tint of military green. The web of references connected to this minimalist and reduced visual world can be widened: …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
The archival material of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts—which comprises part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of authorising exhibitions and the works showcased at those …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… files by author and title. The archive of nearly 15,000 items is complemented by a closely related collection of photographs (mostly consisting of black and white enlargements) documenting the creation of each artwork. Beyond providing insight into the circumstances of the creation of these works of public art, research onthis source material of irreplaceable value also opens up new interpretations of György Aczél’s three T’s (“banned, tolerated, supported”). /Dániel Lőrinczi/
Fond of Ilka Gedő
… the number of juvenilia drawings is around 1700. The number of drawings preserved in the public collections is 422. The number of drawings produced between 1944 and 1949 is 740. Ilka Gedő organized her drawings into folders, and she titled each folder herself. Each drawing can be clearly identified by the folder number and serial number within the folder that is assigned to the given drawing. The number of paintings is 152. This number was modified, since three completely destroyed …