‘collection’
ALBERT Ádám: System Analysis V, 2022–2023
… requirement when it comes to constructing an institutional structure—and especially an archive/collection. The vertically proceeding, Neurathian-type flow diagrams of morphing white shapes projected onto a black enamel surface reminiscent of a switched off monitor screen model this process along three possible paths, all leading to the same destination. The forms derived from textual, framed pictorial (painting, print, etc.), motion picture- and photography-based (perforated edge) media …
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: …
Mail Art Chro-No-Logy
… a complex digital historical chronology of mail art, based on Artpool’s continuously expanding collection. The current results of this process can be viewed on the Artpool website, organised by year, starting in 1962 (when Ray Johnson founded the New York Correspondence School). As part of the research, a collection of texts on mail art has also been published. Additionally, the project has had a rather notable impact in terms of collection expansion as well: since its launch, several …
Ildikó Eleöd
… Péter Catholic University. Between 2010 and 2016, she worked as an exhibition organizer and collection manager at MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen. In addition to working on processing the Antal Lusztig Collection, she was also, for instance, curator of the exhibition entitled The Plain: Stories from the Past Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Fine Arts (2014). In 2012, she was awarded a grant to study the workings of the French Regional Collection of Contemporary …
Zsófia Beke
… leader of the Diocesan Museum of Vác. In 2021, she became a museologist of the Zsuzsanna Erdélyi Collection (Christian Museum, Esztergom). She has been working at KEMKI-ADK since 2023. Since 1994, she has been published in the periodicals Új Művészet, Műértő and Balkon, as well as in exhibition catalogues. She has frequented artists’ colonies and edited publications. Her fields of specialisation include art theory, the theories of space and perception, and crossovers between …