The priceless exhibition will be on display until January. The artworks on display come from the private collection of a doctor from Oradea and his son. “The art of Transylvania between the two world wars” – this is the title of a temporary exhibition that opened  at the Déri Museum. The exhibits come from the private collection of József Böhm, who also gave a subjective guided tour at the end of the opening. The selection on show at the Déri Museum is from his own collection and that of his father, also a doctor. The entire collection comprises around 250 works of art, of which a selection is now on display at the museum. The paintings include portraits, life portraits and landscapes. The deputy mayor István Puskás attended the opening and said that the works of Transylvanian artists also enrich Hungarian culture. Although Transylvania was separated from Hungary by the storms of history, achievements have been made there – not only in literature and theatre but also in the fine arts – which are an integral part of the culture of the Hungarian nation, the deputy mayor said. Source: dehir.hu | Déri Museum – Photo credit: Facebook (Papp László)

Esterházy Marcell’s art practice focuses on the processing of the history of the Esterházy family, which connects to Hungarian and European history in many ways. In his works, he typically works with these family and found archival materials, appropriating and reinterpreting them, alternating great historical narratives and personal family stories in his poetic solutions. The special feature of TIMELINES is that it is an exhibition of his oeuvre, which is also a group exhibition. The multitude of timelines, i.e. the main background material of Marcell’s works, are collected in an unusual “control centre” in the space of the exhibition, where family relics and portraits and the related works of Marcell Esterházy’s co-creators and artist friends are placed next to each other chronologically, yet on a peculiarly emotional basis. The complex collection of objects reflects on the intersection of twentieth-century global and Hungarian history, as well as literary history and family histories, presenting the process of personal past processing, highlighting its compassionate attitude. Source: MODEM

The Debrecen Fine Arts Guild is organizing an exhibition again on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Imre Madách. Imre Madách  (20 January 1823 – 5 October 1864) was a Hungarian aristocrat, writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust and Milton's Paradise Lost. Today it is the central piece of Hungarian theaters' repertoire and is mandatory reading for students in secondary school. Many lines have become common quotes in Hungary. The main characters are Adam, Eve and Lucifer. The three travel through time to visit different turning-points in human history and Lucifer tries to convince Adam that life is (will be) meaningless and mankind is doomed.  Exhibiting artists: Csaba Szabó Aby, Eszter Biró, Teodóra Both, Attila Börcsök, Gabriella B Nagy, István B Orosz, Melitta Csorján, Sándor D Király, Zsigmond Géza Dombi, Zsolt Durucskó, Éles Bulcsú, Sándor Gárdonyi, Enikő Gyöngy, Tibor Hegedűs, Ibolya Horváth, János Komiszár, Eszter Láng, Gábor Lukács, Mihály Magyar, András Máthé, Éva Nuridsány, Erzsébet Palotai, Katalin Pelei, Imre Rácz, István Subicz, Zsuzsa Szász, István Tamus, József Toró, […]

Along the Line is the permanent exhibition of MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center’s collection, in Debrecen. The exhibition, which explores the contemporary use of the line in various media, comes into being by the curatorial selection from a deliberate and continuously evolving collection of the past 16 years including purchases of artworks and mainly donations of the International Artist Residency of Debrecen. Drawings, especially studies, had a subordinate role until the beginning of the 20th century. They could only function as sketches, but nowadays they are considered as complete works of art. The use of lines in the photos, paintings and sculptures presented at the exhibition reinterprets the idea of ​​the drawing-line. Here, it already becomes the vehicle of the artistic idea: a tool that uses the mask of simplicity, focus and ease cleverly in understanding and depicting reality. Curator: Szabolcs Süli-Zakar Till 1 November, 2023 Source: MODEM art center