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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 …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… eighty letters written by him (mainly to his second wife) and 540 letters addressed to him. The correspondence clearly reveals Tornyai’s network of contacts, containing letters written to him by a number of prominent Hungarian artists (e.g. Jenő Barcsay, Mihály Munkácsy, József Rippl-Rónai, and Mihály Zichy), by some of his contemporaries from Hódmezővásárhely (Béla Endre, Mária Kovács, János Pásztor, and Gyula Rudnay), as well as by prominent art critics and writers (e.g. Ödön Gerő, Károly …
László Beke Archives
The László Beke Archive contains the correspondence of art historian, art writer, and theoretician László Beke (1944–2022) with Hungarian and international (especially Central and Eastern European) (neo-)avantgarde artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by Beke deserves special …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… art: minutes of meetings, copies of plans and designs, expert opinions, jury evaluations, official correspondence, contracts, and related official papers. The documents collected on each work are arranged into individual 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 …
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