{"id":3681,"date":"2011-05-02T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2011-06-28T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:05:11","slug":"ket-korszaknyito-kiallitas-%e2%80%93-epiteszet-nelkul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/archivum\/ket-korszaknyito-kiallitas-%e2%80%93-epiteszet-nelkul\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Exhibitions – Without Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the Spell of C\u00e9zanne and Matisse – the Group of the Eight Centenary exhibition, P\u00e9cs 10. 12. 2010. \u2013 27. 03. 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Karikat\u00fara a Fidibuszban, 1909<\/p><\/div>\n

The members of the Group of the Eight (R\u00f3bert Ber\u00e9ny, Dezs\u0151 Czig\u00e1ny, B\u00e9la Cz\u00f3bel, K\u00e1roly Kernstok, \u00d6d\u00f6n M\u00e1rffy, Dezs\u0151 Orb\u00e1n, Bertalan P\u00f3r, and Lajos Tihanyi) created their own painting style mostly under the spell of modern French art.
\nTheir exhibition organised in 1909 was a turning point in the history of Hungarian art: for the first time a young group of artists appeared on the scene whose work organically matched the most modern international trends. The members of the Eight were inspired by Fauvism, mostly by the work of C\u00e9zanne, apart from Matisse. Gradually, they turned to a kind of neoclassic monumentality from early pictorial solutions involving the use of dissolved, strong colours. They only had three exhibitions at that time, which were accompanied by high-quality cultural programmes with the contribution of artists and scholars such as Endre Ady, B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k, Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly and Gy\u00f6rgy Luk\u00e1cs.
\nThe exhibition in P\u00e9cs is an attempt to recreate the three former exhibitions in Budapest, complemented with a representative collection of works by the members around 1910. An important aim of the exhibition is to integrate the art of the Eight into the modern trends of contemporary Europe. This aim is served by the presentation of an international collection of works showing the visual sources that inspired the work of the Eight – primarily the works of C\u00e9zanne, but also including similar efforts by foreign contemporaries such as Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, Vlaminck, and Kokoschka. Just like one hundred years ago, the exhibition also features literary and music programmes where the finest Hungarian artists revive the milieu of the beginning of the last century. As part of the exhibition, a scholarly catalogue in English and Hungarian will be published, introducing not only the artistic activities of the group of the Eight but also their intellectual background, theoretical and philosophical views as well as their literary and musical relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t