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László Százados
… at the Hungarian National Gallery since 1988, until 2020 as Chief Museologist of the Contemporary Collection, and since 2021 as Chief Museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). He has been editor of the Balkon journal of contemporary art since 1997. He is a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA since 1999. He has organised and contributed to a number of permanent (HNG) as well as monographic and thematic temporary exhibitions (HNG; Ludwig Museum, BHM Municipal Gallery …
The Correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai
… KEMKI ADK in collaboration with renowned Rippl-Rónai experts. Our aim is to compile an exhaustive collection and publish every letter ever written by and to Rippl-Rónai. Our estimate is about nine hundred letters in total. The manuscripts are to be published in accordance with the publication guidelines used in literary science, including notes providing the most important information, reproductions of the works referred to in the letters, and other printed or manuscript sources. Rippl-Rónai …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Lili Ország), 2022
… section overall dimensions: 70x 78 cm The estate of Lili ORSZÁG (1926-1978) was added to our collection in 1981 as a gift from art collector János VASILESCU (1921-2006). It also contains printed circuit boards originally manufactured for household appliances, which the artist had acquired from the Gelka repair service and then used in various ways—as a printing block and an enlarged printing plate—to create the images of the Labyrinth. The object under inventory number KEMKI ADK …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… 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 also …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (László Moholy-Nagy), 2022
… 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 few autograph letters and early watercolours, which had been left in the family’s possession.