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Andreas Fogarasi: Vasarely Go Home

Andreas Fogarasi: Vasarely Go Home

Fogarasi, Andreas
Zólyom, Franciska
Schaschl, Sabine

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ISBN10: 3944669541
ISBN13: 9783944669540
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Oct 1 2014
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In Vasarely Go Home Andreas Fogarasi investigates a double event that took place in Budapest on October 18th, 1969. Opening that day, Victor Vasarely, the internationally renowned artist of Hungarian origin, had a large retrospective exhibition at the Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle in Budapest. While Hungarian avant-garde art of that time was forbidden or at best tolerated by the authorities, Vasarely's exhibition--organised by official cultural politics--became an important public event attracting a huge number of visitors. Because of these double standards at play, the show was met with both high expectations and scepticism from the local artistic scene. The second--undocumented--event taking place that evening during the exhibition opening was a one-person protest by artist János Major. He carried a small sign in his pocket that he discreetly showed to friends and acquaintances when he encountered them in the crowd. The sign read Vasarely Go Home.

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