Image Architecture – exhibition by Lajos Kassák
Author: Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László
Keywords: abstract art, avant-garde, semi-public event
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- Cover of the catalog.
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- Page from the exhibition catalog. Photo of Lajos Kassák. Caption: “I have been constructing myself for eighty years.” (from the catalog)
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- Poster of the exhibition.
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- Victor Vasarely’s letter to Kassák (from the catalog)
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- The opening of the exhibition, with Máté Major, János Frank, and Lajos Kassák in the photo. Photo: Géza Szebellédy (courtesy of Kassák Múzeum)
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- The opening of the exhibition, the audience. Photo: Géza Szebellédy (courtesy of Kassák Múzeum)
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- Pages showing the documents of the exhibition from the catalog The sixties – New Trends in Hungarian Visual Art, 1991, Hungarian National Gallery.
Date: 03 March 1967
Participant: Lajos Kassák (1887-1967)
Opening by: Máté Major (1904-1986, architect, editor)
Location: Adolf Fényes Hall, Budapest
The occasion for this exhibition was the 80th birthday of the artist,who since 1949, was hardly able to get official permission to exhibit his abstract works in Hungary. The Adolf Fényes Hall was an exhibition space offered for self-financed shows that were not funded by the state – as all other public exhibitions – but by the artists themselves. The author of the text, Ferenc Csaplár (1940-2007), was the director of the Kassák Múzeum from its foundation in 1976 until 2007. This article was written on the occasionof an exhibition with the same title.
Documents:
Victor Vasarely’s letter to Lajos Kassák (1966)
