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Vienna?s Kunstforum will open The Eight. Hungary?s Highway to Modernism/The Modern Age in September.
?It features the group of eight painters ? Károly Kernstok, Béla Czóbel, Róbert Berény, Ödön Márffy, Lajos Tihanyi, Dezsö Orbán, Bertalan Pór, Dezsö Czigány ? who around 1906/07 launched Hungarian painting into a new phase through their connection to the most modern movements that Europe had to offer at that time,? Kunstforum says.
A year later, the Musée d'Orsay will open Allegro Barbaro (La force du modernism hongrois), a show that puts Hungarian modernist painting into a broader context that includes links to literature and music, said the curators of both shows Zoltán Rockenbauer and Gergely Barki.
Museum of Fine Arts director László Baán said the scale of the exhibitions of Hungarian art at institutions with such high reputations was unprecedented. He added that talks were underway on bringing the paintings to Shanghai, Berlin, Brussels or even the United States after they leave Paris.
Separate catalogues will be printed for the exhibitions in Vienna and Paris. They will include an essay by Peter Vergo that places Hungarian modernists painters in the global cannon.
Baán said the Museum of Fine Arts would soon merge with the Hungarian National Gallery. Talks on materials from their collections that could be used for shows abroad started months ago, he added.
The Museum of Fine Arts will open an exhibition on contemporary Chinese art in August. A show called Cézanne and the Past with works on loan from more than 40 institutions will open in October, and an exhibition of more than 40 works by Egon Schiele will show from June 2013.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
