Self-financed exhibition by György Jovánovics and István Nádler
Author: Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László
Keywords: abstract art, conceptual art, environment / installation, experimental sculpture, irony, painting, site-specificity
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- Opening of the exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Opening of the exhibition – radio action (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Opening of the exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Opening of the exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- The interior with György Jovánovics and István Nádler (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- The exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- The exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- The exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- The exhibition (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- György Jovánovics’s sculpture in his studio before the exhibition. Photo: András Baranyai (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Event in the garden of Miklós Erdély with the sculpture of György Jovánovics. Photo: György Erdély (courtesy of György Erdély and György Jovánovics)
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- Event in the garden of Miklós Erdély with the sculpture of György Jovánovics. Photo: György Erdély (courtesy of György Erdély and György Jovánovics)
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- Event in the garden of Miklós Erdély with the sculpture of György Jovánovics. Photo: György Erdély (courtesy of György Erdély and György Jovánovics)
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- Design by György Jovánovics for his page in the catalog Hungarian Artists (Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, 1972), for which he used a photograph taken at the opening (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Design by György Jovánovics for his page in the catalog Hungarian Artists (Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, 1972), for which he used a photograph taken at the opening (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
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- Invitation leaflet of György Jovánovics’s lecture, “The Best Work of My Life” (courtesy of György Jovánovics)
Date: 15 March 1970
Participants: György Jovánovics (1939), István Nádler (1938)
Opening action with János Frank (1925 – 2004)
Location: Adolf Fényes Hall, Budapest
The Adolf Fényes Hall was a gallery offered for the presentation of tendencies that were not supported but tolerated by the official cultural politics. In addition to István Nádler’s geometric paintings György Jovánovics exhibited a huge plaster sculpture, whose shape was repeating to the ground plan of the gallery. The exhibition was opened by a fictive radio program that – after the most important international news of the day reported on the exhibition itself . After the exhibition, Jovánovics transported the work to Miklós Erdély’s garden, where the sculpture became the setting for a number of spontaneous events, some of which were documented in photographs. Later Jovánovics called this work, more precisely the opening “the best work of my life” in a lecture reconstructing the event held in Artpool Art Research Center. In the 1980s it also inspired János Sugár (1958) to make an exhibition and shoot a film in the same location.
Documents:
Tape script of the opening action (1970)
Video of György Jovánovics’ lecture at Artpool (1999)
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