… retail trade were brought under state ownership between 1948 and 1950, the commercial trade of contemporary artworks also came under state control. In 1952, for the purposes of selling the works of its contemporary artist members, the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic established the Gallery Company (Képcsarnok Vállalat), with its own exhibition space (several in Budapest, and one in nearly every large city in Hungary). Until the 1980s, the Gallery Company monopolised the Hungarian …
… the 1960s, the Studio’s annual overview shows had become an important platform for presenting contemporary Hungarian art trends even though the exhibited material had to be approved by the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic (the organisation that maintained the Studio) and the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts (which ensured state-level supervision of its operations). Nonetheless, the Studio’s exhibitions, and especially its annual shows held at the Ernst Museum, constituted …
… The work is directly connected to the face of the sundial presented at the Kiscell Museum’s exhibition entitled Without Index (2016),[1] alluding to the state of uncertainty that characterises the city described in Tibor Déry’ s novel Mr. A.G. in X (1964), which served as a reference point of the exhibition. In this fictional city, all exists in a state of constant oscillation between the nothingness of Zero and the certainty of One, creating a grey area that forever changes its …
… Later and at the artist’s request, the material was placed in the storage facility of the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. It was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History and it is now officially part of the ADK Collection. The Endre Tót Archives have preserved in a time capsule-like fashion the documents that served as the foundations for—and starting point of—the artist’s later career on the other side of the Iron …
… his father’s family, are also of special significance. Beyond the photographs, manuscripts, and contemporary sources, the collection also includes documents relating to the reception history of Vajda’s art, such as exhibition invitations, exhibition reviews, and literature on Vajda’s art, which has been growing steadily since the 1970s. /Judit Radák/