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The worlds of Széchenyi

Exhibition about “the greatest Hungarian” at the Hungarian National Museum

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author: Beatrix Basics, art historian

It’s a fortunate occurrence that this exhibition at the National Museum about Count István Széchenyi has been organised under the guidance of one of the most outstanding Széchenyi scholars who also happens to be the museum’s director. Five worlds – five exhibition rooms. What, then, were the worlds of “the greatest Hungarian”? The first world […]

The newly discovered Eight

The largest art endeavour of the Pécs European Capital of Culture 2010 project

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author: Zoltán Rockenbauer, a curator of the exhibition

The art critic Máriusz Rabinovszky, who had earlier published penetrating, sympathetic reviews about the modernism of KUT (New Society of Artists), had completely changed by 1949. In a pamphlet he characterised Lajos Gulácsy as a “moonstruck Goya”, while István Csók was “paddling on the waters of mild kitsch”, József Egry was “embarrassing, only a museum […]

Models of work – Museums and models in contemporary architecture

2nd International Architectural Model Festival, Kunsthalle, 12-16 November 2010

MúzeumCafé 21.

author: Architect Samu Szemerey, a curator of the exhibition

Museums play a central role in architecture. (For simplicity’s sake, ‘museums’ here includes all cultural institutions dealing with exhibitions, contemporary art galleries, as well as national and other archives). That role is demonstrably increasing in the development models based on the creative and cultural sectors of European cities as they are gradually deindustrialised. The infrastructure […]

There are no avant-garde gestures now

Dóra Maurer on the exhibition series of the Open Structures Art Society

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author: Gellért Rajcsányi

The Open Structures Art Society has been holding a series of exhibitions at the Vasarely Museum in Old Buda for five years. MúzeumCafé talked to one of the group’s leading figures, internationally noted artist Dóra Maurer, about the events and contemporary Hungarian art of recent decades. “The Open Structures Art Society was organised by Zoltán […]