Művészet, 1987 (28. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1987 / 8. szám
Resume Gábor Rideg: What Hat Do We Raise? 7 The reflections of our magazine's editor-in-chief about the representation of Hungarian art in the world: who are our representatives and how they represent us; the occasion has been provided at the art gallery Műcsarnok, by the preliminary show of the material of the Hungarian art exhibition in Munich, The exhibition bears the title "Contermporary Art—from Hungary" but the author thinks "Selection from Contemporary Art in Hungary" would have been more correct because the selection reflected one special sort of taste and did not offer a comprehensive picture. The author believes that in the presented works the new Hungarian sensitivity, new eclectics and new painterliness—new subjectivsm—despite initial encouraging signs—tends to lead to the loss of individuality, to total depersonalisation. STUDY Bálint Chikán: Sketch for A Group- Painting. II (Survey of the Hungarian Artists of Rumania) 5 The first part of the article appeared in our issue of July. The author, travelling across Transylvania—took stock of the Hungarian artists living and working in the region—without the pretension to completeness. He ends his study with the hope that this survey could become the basis of a comprehensive, analytic or encyclopedical work aimed at treating the activity of Hungarian artists living in Rumania regardless of their age-group. WORKSHOP Aliz Torday: From the Preliminary History of Our Contemporary Textile Art (Textile Artist Éva P. Szabó) 9 We can speak about today's Hungarian textile art meaning the trends that assert themselves since the end of the sixties. But the activity of Éva P. Szabó, startedthe early 30s, connects past and present, our textile artists consider her rightly as one of their predecessors. She is still active, and her older designs and patterns have survived. Her tapestries and her appearances at exhibitions ensure her permanent presence in contemporary Hungarian textile art. Pál Bánszky: Dresses (The Designs of Margit Kathy-Madarász) 12 By the early 60s young people and also the middle generation have shed their folk costume in the Hungarian village. But after hardly ten years popular culture and folk costumes have become fashionable again, especially among townspeople, students, the intelligentsia. Margit Kathy-Madarász' folk-inspired dress designs satisfy their requirements. She has drawn a lot from the folk costumes of the Széklers in Rumania, because these Hungarians living over the border still wear the costumes of their ancestors in rural areas. Mrs. Kathy-Madarász who works also as an art teacher, considers in her dress designs as a decisive element the selection ot the materials: she uses natural fabrics—linen and hemp linen, wool, flannel, velvet. She utilizes not only folk motifs but also the Hungarian elements in church art. Péter Gyárfás: Woven Photographs (The Tapestries of Beáta Hauser) 75 Beata Hauser graduated at the tapestry department of the Academy of Applied Arts in 1980. She does not apply the technique of the classical French Gobelin; seeing with the eye of a graphic artist, she weaves her tapestries in half-rows; this technique makes them lose something of their special Gobelin-like character, and they look like impressionist, or better said, pointillist pictures because this technique presents the figures designed and woven by the artist disintegrated to points and screens. Hauser likes to weave imagined, surrealistic or neo Modern Style portraits. In the early 80s her tapestry Hope won a prize at the Mural- and Space- Textile Art Biennal—the work is now the property of the Savaria Museum. EXHIBITIONS Lajos Lóska: The Golden Age (The Exhibition of Zsuzsa Péreli in the Budapest Műcsarnok) 19 Since the second half of the seventies tapestry, the classical branch of textile art, has experienced an upswing. Zsuzsa Péreli, a member of the middle generation, is one of the leading figures of this art. The exhibition presents tapestries inspired by three kinds of sources: photos from the turn of the century, kitsch of the time of the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy (devotional pictures, old embroideries, meedleworks, oleographs), and the newest works reveal the influence of the form system of 19th century icons. Csaba Polgár: Diploma Exhibition 24 A short survey of the diploma exhibition of students with two specialities at the Academy of Applied Arts. These possible branches are: weaving-printing, leather-dress designing, dress designing-printing, knitwear and dresses, etc. The Hungarian industtry needs these newly qualified textile artists urgently. Péter Sinkovits: Works and Doubts (Centennial Kassák-Exhibition in the Castle of Buda) 26 The collected works of Lajos Kassák were exhibited in the Hungarian National Gallery on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Many works of this great artist (writer, poet, editor) have got abroad, unfortunately very few have remained in Hungary, because at the time his works were not under protection.