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. Her paintings figure in the largest and most important public contemporary art collections: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Hungarian public has already had the chance to get acquainted with Reigl’s works at the life-work exhibitions that had been organised at the Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest (2005) and at Modem in Debrecen (2010), where one could get a comprehensive view of Judit Reigl’s oeuvre, from her early Surrealist compositions, through her gestural abstract works, up to her paintings depicting the human body that recur in cycles to a figurative approach. The exhibition organised at the Ludwig Museum Budapest attempts to present the varied problematics and various stations of this extraordinary life oeuvre, both thematically and chronologically.
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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.