‘monument’
The Oeuvre of György Konecsni
… paintings, stamp designs and illustrations, and also receiving commissions for fairground and monumental art projects. Based on the artist’s estate, which has been preserved and looked after by his heirs, beyond this well known image of the graphic idol, a much more nuanced picture emerges of the artist’s activities. György Konecsni’s experimentally spirited oeuvre, encompassing a wide variety of genres and techniques – and a new understanding of the artist himself, who struggled …
Seeing the Whole Picture: Studies on the Work of György Konecsni
… explored works ranges from tourism-oriented, commercial and political posters to public art, from monumental-scale historicist paintings to abstract expressionist works, from stamp designs to literary illustrations, from caricatures to sgraffito art, from inventive typographic solutions to experimental surface design techniques. (Excerpt from the foreword by David Fehér) Editors: Katalin Bakos, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári Authors: Katalin Bakos, Sára Bárdi, Barbara Dudás, Anikó …
Margit Koller
… has been a member of KEMKI since 2022. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2022, specializing in monumental sculpture, environment, and total installation.
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
Makris Agamemnon, Liberation Monument (Nike), chrome steel sculpture, Pécs, Mecsek-side, 1975, photographer: Ernő Tillai
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
One of the most important areas of activity of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, founded in 1963, was the coordination, judging, and authorisation of community-oriented public artworks for public spaces and public institutions, using the state budget allocated for this purpose. The Lectorate appointed the artist whose public artwork would be permanently installed. It was also responsible …