SMALL WORKS BY GREAT MASTERS

Budapest Contemporary Art show

September 2024

PRESENTING MOMŰ / SZÖLLŐSI-NAGY – NEMES COLLECTION

“SMALL WORKS BY GREAT MASTERS”

As invited guests the exhibition SMALL BY GREAT MASTERS provides a small cross section of the new Modern Art Center (MOMŰ) in Balatonfüred, Hungary.  The MOMŰ consists of the fine art and photography part of the Szöllősi-Nagy - Nemes Collection. The modern and contemporary collection, mostly representing international geometric and concrete art, returned from Paris after thirty years. MOMŰ opened in summer 2022. András Szöllősi-Nagy and Judit Nemes started building up their art collection in Budapest in the early 1970s. In the humble beginning, some works were obtained from some of the then living artists of the Hungarian European School (Európai Iskola).  The couple moved to Paris in the late 1980s. Their concept and objective at the time was to collect surviving works of Hungarian artists living in France in the 20th century. In the mid-1990s, however, the concept changed: international constructivist - geometric - concrete art became the focus of the collection. Approximately 80 percent of the collection is the work of foreign masters and 20 percent by Hungarian masters. The collection, which consists a few thousands of works is made up of works by French geometric artists first, followed by Swiss, Dutch, German, Swedish, Latin American, Japanese, and of course Hungarian concrete and geometric artists. The exhibition aims to present a cross-section of the art collection.

Works by the following artists will be shown: ASIS Antonio; BENEDEK, Barna; BENSASSON, Roger; BOLIVAR, Gaudin; BONIES, Bob; BOTOS, Péter; BRANDT, Andreas; BRICELJ, Beti; CRUZ-DIEZ, Carlos; GÁYOR, Tibor; GLATTFELDER, Hans Jörg; HAÁSZ, István; HERITÉSZ, Gábor; HULIK, Viktor; HUWER, Norbert; KONOK, Tamás; LANTOS, Ferenc; MOHR, Manfred; MOLNAR, Vera; PASQUER, Claude; PROSI, Henri; RÁKÓCZI, Gizella; RIDELL, Torsten; RUBENS, Albert; SAYLER, Diet; SEBESTYÉN, Sára; SUNAGAWA, Haruhiko; SUZUKI, Muneki; VERGOUWEN, Helen; WOLSKY, András and YVARAL

Curator: Máté Kázsmér

Contact information

Address: 8230 Balatonfüred, Blaha Lujza u. 3-5.

Website: https://www.momu.hu/

Open: Wednesday - Sunday 10:00-18:00

E-mail:  lenkzsuzsanna@momu.hu, info@momu.hu

Phone: +36 30 013 02 58

Budapest
Contemporary