‘monument’

… 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)   The participants of the book launch: Katalin Bakos (co-editor, former colleague of the Museum of Fine Arts – …

… and online platforms; State involvement in trading and transferring art, such as commissioning monumental art/murals, guaranteed buying, soft power cultural politics, censorship; Communication for trading and transferring art, such as art critique or catalogue raisonné writing by dealers, advertisement or PR; Logistics and shipping of trading and transferring art Finances of trading and transferring art, such as collateralization or tax deduction; Illicit or unethical trading …

… works of art exhibited at the first Hungarian exhibition in Auschwitz in 1960 as well as a monumental fine arts collection commissioned for the 1965 permanent exhibition at the same venue. With the addition of the earliest Hungarian artworks dealing with the Roma Holocaust, the current exhibition highlights the absence of the issue from the 1960s shows. The exhibition takes place at the Galeria Centralis of the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest, which is the same institution that …

… relationship between Endre Tót and Artpool dates back many decades. The most obvious contemporary monument of this relationship is the "sidewalk table" with the line: I am glad to have stood here in front of the Artpool entrance but the archive preserves works and documents of the artist from all eras. On the occasion of the TÓTalJOY award, we have selected more intimate pieces and documents, which reveal the friendship and appreciation between the artists as well as their distinctive …