The Promises of the Past -- 1950-2010, a discontinuous history of art in former Eastern Europe "looks at Europe's former East-West divide, and challenges the idea of art history as something linear and continuous twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall," the exhibition organisers say.
The exhibition's two curators, Christine Marcel and Joanna Mytkowska, aim to overturn two clichés. The first, that Eastern Europe is no longer of political importance as it was during the Cold War, thus its art has also been devalued. And second, that all art created under the communist regime was politically motivated.
Among the Hungarian artists in the exhibition are Attila Csörgő, whose kinetic pieces have a cosmic content, and Tibor Hajas, a performance artist who died in a car crash in 1980. Works by Tamás Szentjóby, who intentionally created political art, is also included in the show, as are photographs by Endre Tót and Bálint Szombathy.
The exhibition runs until July 19.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI/EPA
