‘correspondence’
The Correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai
Primary source publications The publication of the correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927) is a long-standing debt of Hungarian art history. This publication of great academic importance, long awaited by those interested in modern Hungarian art, is prepared by 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 …
Réka Pálinkás
… at the HNG, and is currently one of the editors of the forthcoming volume of József Rippl-Rónai’s correspondence.
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Tandori), 2022
… exhibition held in Hatvan, in which Korniss also participated. Of the calligrams contained in the correspondence from 1980, however, only the third calligram was included in this exhibition, whose “theme” centres on one of the key works of the master’s late period, the painting series entitled Horizontal-Vertical (1975–1977). Tandori reflects with gentle and empathetic irony on the ascetic reduction of form and colour evident in these works, which were also presented within the framework of …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… (KEMKI ADK 4018/1941). In the background of the composition, we see an excerpt from the correspondence in which Munkácsy described the story of his life to Madame Chaplin (1841–1920) in 1889 (KEMKI ADK 20063/1978, p. 44). Albert, in essence, “explains” and annotates the single, “illustrated” page—a fragment of Munkácsy’s life—while isolating it from its original context of the correspondence, and adding artist-attributes as pictograms. He renders the object unique and amplifies its …
Mail Art Chro-No-Logy
… 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 artists who have been actively engaged – both creatively and organisationally – in the field of correspondence art, have made significant donations to Artpool’s …