Catalogues

Westkunst-Ostkunst. The Collection on Display

The newly organized permanent exhibition makes attempts to present emphatic points not only in well-organized chronological order or along stylistic features, but to examine the artistic-cultural parallels that can be found between Western and Eastern art despite the different social structures. 

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#Bartók

The catalogue accompanies the exhibition #Bartók timed for the Bartók Memorial Year. Béla Bartók’s work offers countless points of contact for reflections and interpretations in visual and sound art.

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Ludwig Goes Pop + The East Side Story

The art collection brought together by Peter and Irene Ludwig is the foundation of all Ludwig Museums. Perhaps the most well-known and famous part of this collection is the body of artworks that represents the period of Pop Art.

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Ernő Tolvaly. Miraculous System

Ernő Tolvaly, an enigmatic figure of Hungarian art life, is primarily known for his artistic activity involving painting. In spite of his quiet personality, he exerted an influence on his colleagues as an artist, an organizer and a teacher, from the 1970s until his death in 2008.

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Hantai

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art has presented the first major exhibition of Simon Hantai in Hungary.

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The Hero, the Heroine and the Author

Catalogue of the Ludwig Museum’s collection display in year 2012. The exhibition concept derives from the dual role of the Artist, i.e. the dialectic phenomena that artists are often both the creators and the main characters of their own works.

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Judit Reigl: Emptiness and Ecstasy

Painter Judit Reigl was born in 1923 in Kapuvár, and has been living and working in France since 1950. She is one of the rare artists of Hungarian origins, who is recognised in the United States, and whose oeuvre uniquely combines the traditions of European and American abstraction.

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[silence] – A Holocaust Exhibition

In his famous book Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (1997), Dutch literary theorist Ernst van Alphen raised the question of the Holocaust’s artistic representability and introduced the notion of “Holocaust effect”.

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The freedom of sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain

“All sound is nearly akin to Silence; it is a bubble on Her surface which bursts straightway, an emblem of the strength and prolificacy of the undercurrent” – writes Thoreau, an idea that was also crucial for John Cage who deliberated sound from all musical constraints, and this freedom of the so

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Gábor Ősz. Three by Three

Gábor Ősz's art deals with questions of pictorial depiction and photography. Beside analyzing technical problems, light, perception and possibilities of the camera, he questions the basic function of the photograph, the exact depiction of reality.

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East of Eden

Photorealism is not merely a genre of painting that invites competition with photographic depiction, but a portrait of welfare society, and sometimes an enlarged image of the tiny lines on its face. 

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János Megyik. The Space of the Image

Working in a realm that is defined by the overlapping fields of painting, sculpture and architecture, János Megyik (1938, Szolnok) has built an œuvre that concentrates on modelling the structure of the panel painting.

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Site Inspection

The artists who practiced institutional critique in their art in the 1960s and 1970s consciously created works of art that are not marketable or easily museologized. It is a paradoxical situation that, most of these works are in museums by now.

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László Moholy-Nagy. New Horizons

An illustrated brossure in Hungarian about the works of László Moholy-Nagy with three essays, a detailed CV of Moholy-Nagy, and black and white photographs. Published on the occasion of the László Moholy-Nagy. The Art of Light exhibition at the Ludwig Museum.

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Mladen Stilinović. Sing!

The catalogue of Sing! - Mladen Stilinović Retrospective exhibition. Throughout his diversified work, Stilinović explores ideological signs and their social aspects.

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The Science of Imagination

As a cultural phenomenon, science-fiction is a final chord or epitaph equally describing the accomplishment and the ideological collapse of modernity; at the same time, it is a precursor of the following, confused, post-period, that continues to this day, and it is the last future-oriented genre.

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