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1950-1989
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Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László

Today You Open the Exhibition – responsibility-taking action

Keywords: artist run space censorship collaboration conceptual art didactic exhibition irony metaphors of repression performative practices semi-public event site-specificity unofficial event
1/16"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)
1/16The 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors 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)
1/16Visitors entering the Chapel. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)

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.

Date: 28 July 1972

Participants: György Galántai (1941), István Haraszty (1934)

Location: Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár