Catalogues

Matter, one of Dubuffet’s major adventures, gains its full meaning in his lithographs. The artist’s interest was aroused at his very first encounter with the rough material. Stone is a mineral matter par excellence, which opened up new paths for the artist.

For a long time, the Hungarian born (Budapest, 1936) László Lakner’s name – who lived in Germany in the past thirty years - was associated with the emergence of Pop Art in the Hungarian art scene. But Lakner was active in a perplexing variety of art forms.

Catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Interior Secrets of the Body'. The works of art in the exhibition approach the subject of disease, the fragility and vulnerability of the body from various points of view.

Thanks to Rebecca Major, lost objects – gloves – become found objects. Found objects that grow into hermeneutic packages during the course of an exhibition, for the visitors add their comments to the exhibits. Each glove, recorded in a photograph, induces a surplus of stories.

In this latest work Mária Chilf breaks with the forms of expression we are accustomed to from her. Her installation uses neither peculiar substances, nor objects to build the installation, nor mounts an exhibition from pictures that carry the surreal, archaic or organic world of forms.

Frigyes Kőnig has been painting works depicting bathers since 1999. A classic theme, the motif of bathing has long provided a framework for placing nude figures within a landscape setting.

If we were to define the common denominator for the most trenchant characteristic possible of the A-R Group, we would have to reach out to certain generalities that can perhaps be characterized by the metaprefix.