Iparterv actions and exhibitions
Author: Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László
Keywords: abstract art, actionism, avant-garde, censorship, non-art venue, painting, poetry, pop art, semi-public event
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- Miklós Erdély: Dirac in front of the box office (Courtesy of the Heirs of Miklós Erdély and Erdély Miklós Foundation)
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- Miklós Erdély: Dirac in front of the box office (Courtesy of the Heirs of Miklós Erdély and Erdély Miklós Foundation)
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- Miklós Erdély: Presentiments (Courtesy of the Heirs of Miklós Erdély and Erdély Miklós Foundation)
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- Invitation leaflet (from the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog)
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- Photo of the ’68 exhibition (from the “Dokumentum 69-70” catalog)
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- Photo of the ’68 exhibition (from the “Dokumentum 69-70” catalog)
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- Cover of the exhibition catalog. Design: György Kemény.
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- Invitation card of the “Iparterv II” exhibition, 1969. Design: György Kemény (from the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog)
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- Photo of the exhibition “Iparterv II.” showing the works of Gyula Konkoly, Tamás Szentjóby, and Imre Bak.
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- Photo of the exhibition “Iparterv II” showing the works of István Nádler, Tamás Hencze, Gyula Konkoly, and Krisztián Frey.
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- Page from the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog showing the interior of “Iparterv II” exhibition.
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- The cover of the catalog “Dokumentum 69-70”.
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- The cover of the catalog “Iparterv 68-80”.
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- Detail from the first page of the exhibition catalog Iparterv 68-80
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- Lajos Németh’s (1929 -1991, art historian and critic) review on the “Iparterv I” exhibition (from the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog)
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- The speech opening “Iparterv I” by János Tölgyesi, art historian (from the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog)
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- Péter Sinkovits’ leaflet for the catalog “Iparterv I” (from the catalog “Iparterv 68-80”)
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- László Beke and Péter Sinkovits preparing the “Iparterv 68-80” exhibition. Photo: György Makky (courtesy of György Makky)
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- Tamás Hencze, István Hajdu, András Baranyay preparing the “Hommage á Iparterv 68/69” exhibition in Fészek Gallery in 1988. Photo: György Makky (courtesy of György Makky)
Dates: 29 November 1968 (Do You See What I See) , 22 December 1968 (Iparterv I), 24 October 1969 (Iparterv II)
Participants: Imre Bak, András Baranyay, Miklós Erdély, Krisztián Frey, Tamás Hencze, György Jovánovics, Ilona Keserü, Gyula Konkoly, László Lakner, János Major, László Méhes, Sándor Molnár, István Nádler, Ludmil Siskov, Tamás Szentjóby, Endre Tót
Organizer: Péter Sinkovits (1943)
Opening by: János Tölgyesi (Iparterv I)
Location: Iparterv State Architectural Office, meeting hall, Budapest
Tamás Szentjóby planned an exhibition entitled “Donor” in July 1968, in the Iparterv State Architectural Office, but it was cancelled after the invitation leaflet was printed and distributed. Three months later and three weeks before the famous first Iparterv exhibition he organized actions entitled “Do You See What I See” in the same location with Miklós Erdély and László Méhes. In the “Iparterv 68-80” catalog issued in 1980 Erdély described these actions as his connection to the Iparterv group.
The hall of the Iparterv Office was not used regularly for exhibitions and the shows were open only for a few days. The first famous group show presenting the “first generation of the neo-avantgarde” in 1968 was accompanied by a small catalog containing a short introduction by the curator, Péter Sinkovits and the reproduction of the works and the CVs of the participants.
In 1969 four more artists, András Baranyay, László Méhes, János Major, and Tamás Szentjóby accepted Sinkovits’ invitation. A year later a catalog was printed illegally in the printing house of the Iparterv Office with a slightly different list of artists (Tamás Szentjóby and Sándor Molnár was left out, Miklós Erdély and Attila Pálfalusi included).
In 1980 a commemorating exhibition was initiated by art historian László Beke (1944) and Lóránd Hegyi (1954). On this occasion a comprehensive English-Hungarian publication was issued containing several studies and also documents of the previous exhibitions in addition to the works of the participants. Finally, shortly before the Regime Change, in December 1988 a three-part “Hommage à Iparterv” series was organized in the Fészek Gallery by Lóránd Hegyi.
Documents:
Péter Sinkovits: Introduction of the publication Document 69–70 (1970)
Miklós Erdély describing the actions performed by him (1980)
