Heavy Industry

Heavy Industry

Curated by Sandor Hornyik PhD. (Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Vernissage: 4 November, 2011
Opening speech by Gábor Andrási, art historian.
On view: until 9 December, 2011

The „primary”, art history aim of the exhibition titled Heavy Industry is to collect again and with the help of contemporary documents (invitations, posters, photos, films) to contextualise the legendary, 1989 Blue Steel exhibition that was set up in the Lajos street Exhibition Hall of the Budapest Gallery, with the participation of Imre Gábor, Pál Gerber, Gábor Gerhes, Gyula Julius, Balázs Kicsiny, György Kungl, Thomas Mulligan, János Sugár and the Substitute Thirsters.

The title Heavy Industry itself refers, on the one hand, to the political and cultural situation in which the exhibited works of art were created in the second half of the eighties, that is the transition period and the post-socialist visual culture. On the other hand, the title also expresses the difficulties of the reconstruction and the interpretation. In line with this, the „secondary”, cultural history aim of Heavy Industry is exactly to present a significant arts segment of the period of the régime change through concrete works of art.

Sándor Hornyik
 
Supported by: National Cultural Fund, Municipality of Dunaújváros, Dunanet Design Studio

Special thanks for the collectors and collections who has lended us the artworks: László Gerő, Gábor Hunya, László Lugosi Lugo, Attila Raum, the Collection of the Young Artists' Studio, Hungarian national Gallery, Ludwig Museum - Museum for Contemporary Art - Budapest, Szent István Király Museum - Székesfehérvár, KOGART Contemporary Art Collection – Budapest, International Ceramics Studio – Kecskemét, Első Magyar Látványtár.