The museum will show Technical Detours: The Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered, an exhibition that focuses on works made between 1916 and 1923, from April 25 until August 24. The capital is the third stop for the exhibition, which has been to New York and to the Hungarian city of Pécs.
The works in the exhibition come from private collections around the globe. They aptly show Moholy-Nagy's astonishing mastery of painting, photography and film in no less than nine phases of his early career in Hungary and Germany.
A highlight of the exhibition is a painting the hills of Buda that Moholy-Nagy presented to the great Hungarian poet Endre Ady. Oliver Botar, the curator of the exhibition, which was organised by the Salgo Trust for Education, said another extraordinary work is a newly discovered, early painting from Moholy-Nagy's Dada period that was hidden for more than seventy years on the verso of his early International Constructivist masterpiece Architekur 1.
The exhibition also shows some works by Moholy-Nagy's contemporaries, including Sándor Bortnyik, János Mattis-Teutsch, Lajos Tihanyi and Béla Uitz.
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