Today You Open the Exhibition – responsibility-taking action
Author: Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László
Keywords: artist run space, censorship, collaboration, conceptual art, didactic exhibition, irony, metaphors of repression, performative practices, semi-public event, site-specificity, unofficial event
- “TODAY YOU OPEN THE EXHIBITION” notice at the entrance of the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- The entrance of the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
- Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
Date: 28 July 1972
Participants: György Galántai (1941), István Haraszty (1934)
Location: Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár
The action took place during the exhibition of the Pécs Workshop (Ferenc Ficzek, Károly Halász, Károly Kismányoki, Ferenc Lantos, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Kálmán Szíjártó, Katalin Nádor) and István Haraszty’s kinetic sculptures.
Documents:
István Harasztÿ – interview (1998)
György Galántai – manuscript (1998)
Source: Törvénytelen avantgárd. Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970–1973 [Illegal Avant-garde, the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio of György Galántai 1970–1973], eds. Júlia Klaniczay and Edit Sasvári (Artpool–Balassi, Budapest, 2003): 138.