Opening: 28 April at 7 pm and 29 April at 8 pm
Photon Gallery / AnkerBrot Fabrik & Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
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Photosuprematists: Károly Minyó Szert, Anikó Robitz, Bálint Szombathy
29 April – 13 June 2015
Photon Gallery / AnkerBrot Fabrik, Vienna
The concept demonstrated here was inspired by the apropos of a significant event in art history, namely the centennial of Suprematism. Although the first Suprematist manifesto was published in 1915, two years prior to that Kazimir Malevich had created the first series of paintings denying objective representations; therefore, historiography considers 1913 the birth year of this revolutionary, high-impact trend. Works in this exhibition do not relate to the Suprematist tradition as a systematic pattern, that is to say they do not desire to illustrate Malevich’s doctrine. The Suprematist attitude is already present in the creations, as a result of a long process of self-development behind which there is a genuine human-creative sensibility. The project simply enhances the unique historical moment, confirming, amongst the broadest international environment, the high standards and the quality of Hungarian contemporary photography that, at all times, is capable of adding own values to the actual artistic productions in an up-to-date manner.
Artist Bálint Szombathy invited two of his artistic colleagues, Károly Minyó Szert and Anikó Robitz to join him in a group of particular representatives of Hungarian contemporary photography according to above-mentioned principal aspect. Malevich’s idea of pure sensibility is vigorously present in all three authors; however, it manifests itself on slightly different levels with regards to linguistic articulation. But in fact these differences between stages demonstrate most truly to the all-time actuality of pristine human ambitions to be launched towards ethereal heights and divine spheres.
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Photomagic: Gabor Kerekes, Stane Jagodič, Branko Lenart
28 April – 3 September 2015
Collegium Hungaricum Wien
With the exhibition in Collegium Hungaricum we are paying homage to Gabor Kerekes, a Hungarian photo artists who passed away last year, and whose body of work still needs to be discovered to a broader European public. At the PhotoMagic exhibition his work will be complemented with the selection of works of two other internationally renowned photo artists, Stane Jagodič and Branko Lenart, whose approach to photography has been similarly explorative and experimental.
Produced by Gallery Photon and Collegium Hungaricum