The museum's director, Lóránd Hegyi, a Hungarian, said works from Hungary by the painter and graphic artist László László Révész and the painter Katalin Szil are part of the exhibition. The other works come from international collections from Brazil to Japan, from Korea to Poland, he added.
The exhibition is based on the theories of the Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emanuel Levinas, who believed the past century - the era of strength, monumentalism and utopias - had bankrupted humanity, Hegyi said. The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard saw things in a similar light: he believed the utopias and the technical developments of the 20th century did not positively affect a display of human talent, rather the most terrible things happened under the aegis of science, Hegyi added.
Humanity has grown tired of utopias and, as seen in the arts, is seeking intimacy, Hegyi said. The title of the exhibition, Fragile, also shows that human values are demonstrated directly through connections with each other. The works are built not on ideology, politics or religion, but on direct reactions, on new human connections. They are poetic, intimate, fragile, tolerant and solid, he said.
A good example of this is László László Révész's ten drawings that depict everyday objects, presenting a subjective history, Hegyi said. Katalin Szil's small pictures show birds and ping-pong balls flying about contingently as a sign of chance meetings, he added.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
