Image Architecture – exhibition by Lajos Kassák

1/7Poster of the exhibition.

1/7Cover of the catalog.

1/7Page from the exhibition catalog. Photo of Lajos Kassák. Caption: "I have been constructing myself for eighty years." (from the catalog)

1/7Victor Vasarely's letter to Kassák (from the catalog)

1/7The opening of the exhibition, with Máté Major, János Frank, and Lajos Kassák in the photo. Photo: Géza Szebellédy (courtesy of Kassák Múzeum)

1/7The opening of the exhibition, the audience. Photo: Géza Szebellédy (courtesy of Kassák Múzeum)

1/7Pages showing the documents of the exhibition from the catalog The sixties - New Trends in Hungarian Visual Art, 1991, Hungarian National Gallery.

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:

Ferenc Csaplár: From Prohibition to Tolerance, Kassák’s Work and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s (2006)

Victor Vasarely’s letter to Lajos Kassák (1966)