EXHIBITIONS IN 2014
TEMPLESPACE
Csaba Filp Data est
defectus
installation
Csaba Filp’s Data est defectus – Absence is Given (2013) exhibition suggested a peculiar, archaic atmosphere. There were non-curtain curtains, half-armors, angels standing on columns, monumental table-show-case, decorated with angels, having buckles inside, which were about connections and joining. Csaba Filp was already known as a painter, but the challenge of the space made him realize an installation.
–2 February
Curated by Judit Lorányi
Luca Korodi Elementary Particles
installation
Luca Korodi’s Elementary Particles (2014) exhibition is similar to the previous one, as she is primarily a painter, so she displayed paintings in the sanctuary. However, in the nave there was only one, large installation, which showed the relief map of Antarctic, put together from glass crocks, and a hanging projector produced the picture of Antarctic on the glass surface. Ultra-violet light illuminated the landmark, this way the whole object was shining in a peculiar light.
The world is absurd. Constant
rethinking. Revalued anyway.
"The sense of consciousness and self-consciousness, that is subject to any
knowledge of itself and of the unity of knowledge is the highest ..."
"... With as much certainty about himself, subjectivity or objectivity as
being one and the same thought ..." GW Hegel
31 January–10 March
Curated by Fitz Péter
Tamás Jovanovics Swing Out
installation,
paintings
Tamás
Jovánovics’ Swing Out (2014) exhibition is the result of a very
consequent painting program: he is concerned about tiny motions, the
gentle movements of lines. Stepping out from plane to space is the exiting
field of his painting activity. This process was presented in the
paintings placed in the sanctuary. His works first emerged from plane in
reliefs, then in the nave nine red and white, spirally striped columns
rose and disappeared high. The row of columns had a slight curve, which
gradually bent and tilted from the vertical order. The material of the
columns – the visitor could not guess it for the first sight, only when he
approached those – was the row of plastic ribbons which were applied at
road-constructions and buildings, and these red and white striped, partly
transparent ribbons were fixed onto annuli in eighteen meters heights. The
stripes of ribbons were fixed strictly side by side, so red and white,
spiral forms of columns came to light.
3 April–27 April
Curated by Judit Lorányi
Budapest, Patron City the Arts
The Municipal Gallery
An exhibition of the New Budapest Gallery and the Municipal Gallery
in the BÁLNA
3 April 3–30 August
Curated by Péter Fitz and Péter Mattyasovszky
Zsolnay
Mariann Imre Transience seized
installation
Mariann
Imre’s Transience Seized (2014)
installation joins strictly to the consequently minimalist
oeuvre. In the centre of her activity there is the search for new
environments and making new connections referring to the very tiny,
everyday signs, scribbles, embroideries, etc. Her exhibition at Kiscell
followed this conception, too. In the entrance hall of the sanctuary there
was the Transience Seized, a wooden table, while a colored concrete
embroidery in it gave the title and start of the project. In the nave of
the Templespace she built up a part of a room of her studio, and in its
wall the gentle signs, concrete embroideries as scribbles kept on. The
closing part of her project was her sketch-book, placed in a little niche
under the tower.
16 May–31 August
Curated by Anikó B. Nagy
Installations in the Municipal Gallery
1992-2014
The almost fifty installations
unambiguously indicate that the spots in Kiscell nearly wish and want the
artistic solution of thinking in space. Certainly, we cannot say that the
most important spot of installations, let them be national, and partly
international, is the Templespace, but its role cannot be negligible.
Certainly, spiritually and formally several assemblages were on show, originating from the oeuvres and activities, and there were some expressively executed for the given spot and there were “marginal cases”, too. The Installations in the Municipal Gallery 1992-2014 exhibition, and the joining book, tries to document this activity.
The present exhibition material is actually a documentation, though it is impossible to line up 48 assemblages. That’s why the exhibition itself is an installation as well, while five projectors show the photo documentation of the forty-eight installations on the walls, on a mirror pyramid and on a screen.
An era is closed by this act, the curators, Péter Mattyasovszky and Péter Fitz retire. Hopefully the successors will continue the program of more than two decades, giving space to newer installations in the spot of the Municipal Gallery.
2 October–16 November
Curated by Péter Fitz and Péter Mattyasovszky Zsolnay
ORATORY
The Black is Beautiful
György
Buczkó , István Haász, Miklós Szüts,
Erzsébet Vojnich , Gábor Záborszky
paintings,
sculptures
–2
February
Curated by Judit Lorányi
A selection from the Levendel Collection
27 March–8 June
Curated by Judit Lorányi
Anja
Luithle Running around
(Berlin)
12 June–21 August
Curated by Anikó B. Nagy, Alexander Tolnay
