Urban Landscape 1974-1989 | FINISSÁZS
Let's say goodbye to the urban landscape exhibition together on September 6th!
On the afternoon of the last day, there will be guided tours by photographers and curators, underground music and lemonade, i.e. an informal adventure on the promenade of constructed images of the city.
𝟏𝟒 𝐨́𝐫𝐚́𝐭𝐨́𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢́𝐩𝐢𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐕𝐞́𝐤𝐚́𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐧𝐚́𝐯𝐚𝐥
We create images using iron-based chemicals and sunlight. During the process, the paper is coated with a photosensitive solution, and then the objects or negatives placed on it are exposed to sunlight. The light causes the compound to undergo a chemical reaction, and a characteristic blue iron compound is formed in the uncovered parts. The image is fixed by rinsing it with water, thus preserving the blue-white contrast.
A maximum of 15 people can participate in the program at a time, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Schedule
The exhibition was created by taking on the progressive photographic vision of the era and the visual image of the city as one, with the aim of making both the artistic and the urban historical perspective visible. The creative considerations followed the ideological direction of the urban landscape as a social construction and as an existential experience, and processed the diverse components of the experiences related to and gained in Budapest space. In the exhibition, we tried to show the multiple approaches (conceptuality, seriality, metaphorization) that the different photographers applied in their images depicting the urban (Budapest) landscape. The exhibition covers a well-defined decade and a half, but actually moves through broader time frames: the neo-avant-garde and subjective documentary photographic works depicting the urban landscape, made in the second half of the 1970s and the 1980s, leave the political and social frameworks of state socialism and induce today's, contemporary conceptual works.
curator: Emese Zsoldos
photo: ©Hámos Gusztáv: Criticism of the sociophotographer. Halves, 1974 (detail)
Tickets: 𝟑.𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐅𝐭, which can be purchased in person at the museum's ticket office
Kiscelli Museum
The Kiscelli Museum and its 15 hectares of parkland are located in the 3rd district of Budapest, between Óbuda and Remetehegy. The 18th century Baroque church and Trinitarian monastery, built by the Zichy family, was used as a barracks by the army in the 19th century. In 1910 it became the property of furniture manufacturer Miksa Schmidt, who later had it converted into a castle, hence the name Schmidt Castle. It is now home to the Budapest History Museum's collection of Modern Urban History and the Budapest City Gallery, the fine arts collection.
