Hungarian Studies in London
This SocialEast symposium considers the involvement of art during the Cold War with espionage, both on the level of international exchange and in specific national contexts. It deals with attempts within the Eastern Bloc to monitor artists through surveillance and networks of informers, the role of art espionage as an instrument of Sovietisation, and the methods used to control the [...]
The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s first film festival, ‘Check the Gate: Our 21st Century’ begins today, at the Curzon Mayfair. Coinciding with the centenary of the birth of Hungarian cinema, the festival celebrates the best of contemporary Hungarian cinema, and showcases features by Kornél Mundruczó, Bendek Fliegauf, György Pálfi, Csaba Bollók, Ferenc Török, Diana Groó, and [...]
On 2 November, students and teaching staff watched Károly Makk’s 1971 film Szerelem, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and arguably one of the greatest Central European films of all time. Two short stories by Tibor Déry (1896-1977) form the basis of Szerelem, for which Déry also wrote the [...]
Opening tomorrow at the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest is Csaba Nemes’s REMAKE I-X, a series of ten animated sequences dealing with the riots in Hungary last year. The following is an excerpt from Maja and Reuben Fowkes’s ‘Sooner or Later the Tanks Will Appear’:
The work features ten animated sequences that originated in media coverage, video [...]
An international exhibition considering ‘the resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art against the backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising’ opened last week in Norwich (21 March-21 April).
Revolution is not a Garden Party has already exhibited at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden [...]
Readers familiar with Hungarian politics may be dismayed, but perhaps not particularly surprised, to learn of the trouble surrounding the competition for the Hungarian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The jury selected Csaba Nemes’s project Remake, which deals with the public disturbances in Budapest last autumn, only to have their choice overruled by [...]
The paintings of Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41) are currently being shown at the Tate Modern (28 February – 22 April 2007; admission free). From the Tate Modern’s website:
Amrita Sher-Gil’s vibrant canvasses and her short but dynamic life have established her as one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Born in Budapest in 1913, [...]