Katalógusbemutató a MODEM-ben: A szín képe, a kép minisztériuma
We look forward to welcoming you to the catalog presentation of this year's exhibition entitled The image of color, the mystery of the image on Tuesday, December 10 at 5 p.m. at MODEM!
Schedule
Program:
Round table discussion dr. With the participation of art collector Péter Antal, Reformed bishop Károly Fekete and mathematician Miklós Hoffmann, moderated by curatorial assistant Edward Kovács.
About the exhibition:
Under the title The image of color, the mystery of the image, it presents a comprehensive selection of monochrome paintings from the Antal–Lusztig collection, which is one of the most important private collections in Hungary. Its owner, Dr. Péter Antal started buying monochrome paintings in the mid-2000s, and they form a separate segment of his collection of more than five hundred works. In recent decades, we have seen a selection of these monochrome works at numerous domestic and foreign exhibitions. However, the importance of the never-before-seen material as a whole is given, among other things, by the fact that, thanks to this exceptional collector's commitment, the spirit and heritage of monochrome painting lives on in the domestic discourse not only in individual works of art, along the lines of consistent creative endeavors, but also in exhibitions selected from the Antal–Lusztig collection. it appears in the public discourse from time to time through press publications published on the occasion. In doing so, it contributes to the continuity of communication on the subject and to the unquestionable historical (and international) embedding of monochrome in Hungary.
Organized into 7+1 separate units, the exhibition, which this time selected from the monochrome segment of the Antal–Lusztig collection, guided the visitor along a route – both physical and imaginary – that starts from the material components of painting and leads through the researches of monochrome painters to concepts of painting that are thought to be self-evident. throughout, such as gesture, image space, image border, or image layers. However, the works of domestic and international artists, organized into individual sections, not only shade the general ideas about these concepts, but also allow us to get closer to the mystery of painting, as a result of which, after the release of the material of paint, the type of portrait genre that depicts the image of color could be created.
The program is free for everyone!
With their participation, visitors accept that audio and video recordings will be made during the event, which can be used for promotional purposes on MODEM's surfaces. We reserve the right to change the program.
Center of Modern and Contemporary Art - Modemart
“The MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art is a cultural institution with international connections, which has two main missions: the exhibition of the most significant 20th century Hungarian and international works of art, and the representative presentation of the current schools and progressive efforts of the contemporary visual art and culture as well as most respected Hungarian and international artists.”
The MODEM intends to realise those ambitious goals that the institution has set for itself during the start-up period.
With one of the best infrastructural conditions in East-Central-Europe, the MODEM is to be an essential part not only of the visual art scene but the whole cultural sphere. The art center is suitable to represent that the culture has high priority for the institutes and the whole town. Therefore, one of our basic goals is to make the MODEM a wider intellectual space and forum to where not only the spectators but also the artists return regularly with pleasure.
The primary point of view of the MODEM is the reconstruction of its character in the Hungarian art life, with the cooperation with new elements which strengthen the relation with the local and regional community as well as with the broader international cultural scene in a longer term perspective and form and run a multilevel and manifold network. We aim to create a brand new narrative which change the public opinion about the role of the contemporary art and make the visual art the part of the everyday life. An important goal of our programme is to represent the diversity of the contemporary art and to display the attendant art in different forms. In the selection of thematic exhibitions, not only the visual art gets into focus but the architecture and social science as well.
The Antal‒Lusztig Collection also plays a major role in the MODEM’s life, since it is permanent part of the ground floor exhibition room. The items of the collection are presented by newly arranged exhibitions twice a year. Furthermore, the professional and accurate cataloguing of the collection has started simultaneously as well.
