Context & Identity in Contemporary Hungarian Art
Not just historical consciousness:
- Many artists focused on current political and cultural situation
- Most of the projects discussed previously resonate with current societal issues
Website:
www.contextandidentity.wordpress.com
Reimagining the near past and constructing local identities
How do context and identity function in contemporary Hungarian art?
Little Warsaw
Crew Expendable
Little Warsaw
Reconstruction –Isolation Exercise – Cyrill & Method
Identities: enlarges concept of national and other forms of collective identity beyond traditional nation-state borders and singularities
Context: while enriching the art works, can conversely act as limiting factor
József Szolnoki
Homeopathic Reality
Studio visits
Who
was
Janos Major?
Szabolcs KissPál
Amorous Architecture
Library
Research
Exhibitions
Conferences
Context:
how it functions
Andreas Fogarasi
Go Home Vasarely
Gergely László
Yad Hanna /
The Collective Man
contemporary Hungarian art
in which the past is very much present
Identity:
how it functions
Art...
- what is the legacy of critical, socially engaged unofficial art of the Communist period in a newly democratic society?
- characterized by a discursive approach to historical consciousness
- enlarges ideas of collective identity and allow for multiple identities
as a vehicle to explore
historical consciousness
What is a
Communist
building?
Andreas Fogarasi
Kultur und Freizet
Csaba Nemes
Remake
Zsolt Keserue
National Textbook
A Fulbright Project by Linnea West (2012-13)
Could a western artist understand how little this gesture had to do with envy, aggression or a thirst for professional success, that it was dictated rather by loyalty and self-irony?