For the second time, the public can meet with pieces from the distinguished fine art collection of Jan and Meda Mladek , the couple of Czech origin who emigrated to Washington, in the exhibition halls of the Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art.
Orshi Drozdik is one of the few Hungarian artists who have achieved international reputation. She began her career in Budapest, after a promising start and success, she rather chose to participate in the international art scene when she moved in 1978 to Amsterdam, and then in 1980 to New York.
"The A-R Group (the name was derived from French words Avance – Retard which are used to describe the fast or slow function of a watch) was formally established in 1989.
At the core of the installation of the Berlin artists is Thomas Mann’s novella entitled Transposed Heads (Die vertauschten Köpfe).
The installation comprises two videos screened simultaneously, six photographic panels and instruments of neurosurgery.
Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with C3: Center for Culture & Communication and InterAccess Toronto, within the framework of the Budapest Autumn Festival, presents the exhibition and event series entitled Digitized Bodies – Virtual Spectacles.
Defining Kantor as one of the most eminent Polish artists of the second half of the twentieth century does not amount to much. In Polish art he has been what Joseph Beuys has been in German art, and what Andy Warhol has been in American art.
Tamás Szikora put the fruits of a 17 year process of highly consistent artistic activity on show in four solo exhibitions of 1993 (Institut Hongrois, Paris; Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár; Institut Français, Budapest; Dovin Gallery, Budapest): this was the culmination of a story in ma
Men with Glass Bodies is the last work in a series of still lifes I started working on in 1994. The series uses still life as a metaphor of the split between body and spirit, nature and culture.
Music comes with light, inspired by the environment, the ambition of its listener. The multitudes of one or many worlds open up before us, from Abony to Milan, from the banks of the river Danube to Lake Titicaca. Whether you lock yourself out or enter in – You decide.
”The temporal space of a picture is none other than the world of magic, a world in which everything repeats itself and takes part in a context full of meaning.
“I paint on the perimeter of death. As if I were driven by some other force. A pressure, a squeezing. I am unable to handle or control this urgency. As soon as the idea, the reflection presents itself, the picture is complete”, says the artist of his own creative process.
One of the most interesting exhibitions of this rather transitional year is of Sandro Chia at the Ludwig Museum Budapest.
He went to Paris that he did not know anything about photographing. He was supported by Tihanyi and Kertész, who had already lived there. They introduced him to other artists, too.
The Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. PA has organised an exhibition of the artist's works for a tour of 12 countries in eastern & southern Europe during 2000 and 2001.
