"Szilágyi Róza Tekla"
Interview with Rafael Vostell, director of The Wolf Vostell Estate
We interviewed Rafael Vostell, Wolf Vostell's son and curator of his estate, at the opening of the exhibition "Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell. Art after the Shoah" at Ludwig Museum, Budapest.
“What you see is what you get, reality doesn’t pretend to be anything else than what it is.”
Hans van der Meer was born in 1955 in the Netherlands and is considered the most distinctive Dutch documentary photographer of his generation. On the occasion of his exhibition titled Minor mysteries on view until 23 december at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest we were also able to meet him – so we talked about the pictures he took in Budapest in the 1980s and the time he spent in Hungary, the relationship between photographs and words, his archive, and a tiny bit about football too.
“Ballenesque is a viewpoint of the world from my psyche”
Roger Ballen was born in the United States in 1950 and now living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa for more than forty years. We talked with one of the best-known photographers of our time apropos of his exhibition in Budapest, where we discussed the path from documentary to staged photographs, his interest in psychology, the complex relations between language and photographs, and his works at this year's Biennale Arte in Venice.
“No single piece of a meme is a masterpiece”
I lost useful hours to this meme page laying on my sofa scrolling through all the witty memes about the contemporary art market and art theory. Besides being a big fan I wanted to figure out the motivation and drive behind the two-year-long activity that created 1340 posts so far—all of them focusing on daily happenings and existential questions in the art world.
I Perceived this Period as an Intermezzo
At its latest exhibition, acb Gallery presents paintings by Endre Tót, which waited in a storage for thirty years for someone to rediscover them. We talked to Endre Tót about these temporarily forgotten pieces of his colorful oeuvre, the influence of Informel painting, and the unexpected appearance of an artwork.
A brief lunch with the Amorphic Robot Works in Munich
Chico MacMurtrie - while exploring and investigating the endless artistic possibilities in robotic sculptures, new media installations and performances - founded the interdisciplinary artistic collective, the Amorphic Robot Works/ARW in 1991 inspired by a year-long residency in San Francisco.
Getting a bigger picture from a quite small booth
Wandering around in Art Market's endless maze the visitor happily recognizes a Polish gallery's - called PROPAGANDA - booth. The installation's simplicity and the "not-too-crowded with artworks" mentality shines through even from far away. Mariusz Tarkavian's, Tomasz Kulka's and the Polish group - who even have an exhibition in Budapest right now - Łódź Kaliska's work create a balanced triptych. The Jan van Eyck-like paintings, the photograph based conteptual works and the bunch of small drawings representing three different techniques and three different artistic attitude. We get a bigger picture from a quite small booth.