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.
In autumn 1999 it was ten years since the demolition of the Berlin Wall. In recognition of this momentous event Moderna Museet Stockholm planned an exhibition with an extensive catalogue under the title of After the Wall.
PAINTING PRIZE OF HUNGARIAN ASPHALT LTD, 2000
Exhibition of works by the prize-winners
Museum of Contemporary Art / Ludwig Museum Budapest
March 2-19, 2000 (1st floor, Danube side)
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.
