Amongst the most seductive of Beaton's photographs are those in which his sense of high styte dramatises and gives a magical aura to an elegant woman dressed in the high fashion of the day, and posed in a grandiose but authentic interior.
In the works of Emese Benczúr, the creating process is based on repetition. Usually, her technique is the embroidery, which is conceived as a traditional female occupation. Although embroidery is a way of avoiding boredom, in her case it is the way of artistic creation.
The Museum of Contemporary Art - Ludwig Museum Budapest presents the work of 15 Swiss artists under the title CH - Contemporary Swiss Art.
Endre Tót, who was born in Sümeg, Hungary, and lived the first 40 years of his life behind the "Iron Curtain", considers it an omen to have been baptised in the "Sistine Chapel of the Rococo", surrounded by Franz Anton Maulbertsch's magnificent frescoes (1757-58).
Budapest is probably the last scene of this monumental travelling exhibition, organised by MonteVideo/TBA - Netherlands Media Art Institute.
This major exhibition of 23 young British Artists is drawn mainly from the celebrated "Goldsmiths generation", whose fusion of minimal and conceptual art with the everyday brought them to the attention of the art world in the early 1990's.
Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum Budapest
Project Room
Miriam Bäckström (Stockholm)
22 June – 25 July 1999
Opening: Tuesday, 22 June 1999, 6 p.m.
The exhibition shows the works of thirty Italian artists, and it is the result of collaboration between the Museum and the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as Trieste Contemporanea, an organisation supported by the city of Trieste.
In a sign we try to surpass ourselves while creating an illusion of eternal life, we do not make things abstract through it but we create existence, we die in it while we aim at resurrection.
The second exhibition of the Project Room in the Ludwig Museum Budapest/Museum of Contemporary Art presents the works of Éva Bodnár. Éva Bodnár studied painting in the early 70's at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.
After his photography exhibit Danaides in 1995 (Ernst Museum), Ferenc Grunwalsky (b.
Due to the increasing individualism within both the economic and social sphere during the twentieth century, the individual has been put into a difficult situation.
The Hungarian Asphalt ltd (Magyar Aszfalt Kft.) has announced its painting competition and art price for the third time.
This year the Jury awarded the following young artists from 105 entries:
While thinking about the concept of the exhibition of Ilona Németh and Péter Rónai, I was inspired by the montages of Sergej Mikhailovich Eizenstein – the classic of Russian and world cinematography.
The name of Gyula Gulyás became known through his geometrical statues from the decade of 1970 in the style of Minimal and Conceptual Art.
Through the themes of Identity and Environment, which have concerned many artists and photographers over the past ten or more years, I wanted to show how themes such as these can be approached from both the documentary and conceptual traditions; to show recent work from both established and young
The German private collector, Carl Großhaus, owns over two hundred works by Ernesto Tatafiore. This exhibition displays about one hundred paintings, sculptures, objects, graphics and art-books from the last two decades.
Gia Edzgveradze is a Düsseldorf based Georgian artist who has exhibited with much success in several venues in Western Europe, including the last Venice Biennale.
The Ludwig Museum Budapest–Museum of Contemporary Art presents the work of the New York based Spanish artist, Antoní Muntadas, first time in Hungary. The exhibition material is based on five already existing works in context of the new works specially made for Budapest. Deconstructing the systems
Hajdu István wrotes on Róbert Swierkiewicz, born in 1942: “since the beginning of his carrier, he has been freely ranging across the whole spectrum of the twentieth century style and technique in a totally inhibited way, appropriating all sorts of devices with careless abandon”.
