Hungarian Art, History on Display in Russia

English


havadtoy.jpg
Move 41 from Sámuel Havadt?y's installation The Game
 

Two Revolutions: 1848-1956, an exhibition of historical documents, will open at the Khanty-Mansi Regional Scientific Library on May 14. The Khanty-Mansi region's indigenous peoples speak a language which is related to Hungarian.

 
Away From the Homeland: Hungarian Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union will open at the Moscow Cultural Centre on May 16. The exhibition shows the joint efforts over several years of Russian archivists and those at Budapest's Military History Museum.
 
An exhibition at Moscow's New Tretyakov Gallery entitled Russia-Europe-Russia will open on May 20. The exhibition will feature three paintings from three different periods from each EU member state. Hungary will loan the gallery Self Portrait by Ádám Mányoki, March Night by Károly Ferenczy and The Genius of Machine Flying by Béla Kondor for the exhibition.
 
The Knoll Gallery will offer Hungarian art for sale at Art-Moscow, an art fair which takes place on May 16-20. Moscow's Hungarian Cultural Centre will make its own contribution to the fair, displaying Sámuel Havadtőy's installation The Game, which recreates the 41 moves of the famous 1971 chess game between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.
 
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)