‘documents’

… Archive and a real Bureau full of materials and responsibilities: they corresponded, they filed documents, they received visitors. What were they doing, what were they working on? Let us be aware that the activities involved artists from both sides of the Iron Curtain, which is why their experiences and everyday lives were extremely different. However, the passage of time has caused the political context to recede somewhat into the background. What came to the fore were ideas that only …

… semantic changes of the square, its most striking motif. Using newly discovered and reinterpreted documents, she shows how this legacy was reinterpreted by the three main protagonists of the book, Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and Theo van Doesburg. She explores the transnational relationship between the three from 1919 onwards, and then the reception of Malevich in the West after the Second World War, which gives the author the opportunity to present the avant-garde tradition as a fabric …

… you are interested about fluxus, please visit Artpool until 4 October 2022!   A selection of documents of Artpool's Fluxus research, curated by György Galántai is open every workday from 10 am to 5 pm. More information can be found on the Artpool website.

… 50 years ago, introduces the ambiguous and fundamental otherness of the key participants. Documents, images and texts, sounds and videos, presented as installations, inform from the past to the present with general and most personal perspectives on artistic and non-artistic existential issues. The film Kultúr/Galántai/Domb [Culture/Galántai/Hill] directed by György Galántai in 1992 will be screened at the opening (38:16), which consists of memories of the past and the …

… during the evaluation process.  Artpool boasts an unrivalled collection, comprising mainly documents from the underground fine arts, music, literature, and experimental film culture as well as from the international mail-art movement. Kaszás's research is linked to Artpool's experimental spirit: the artist, in collaboration with Artpool staff, has worked with the collection, transcending the classical conceptual frameworks and theories of archives by using the tools of contemporary …