Artmagazin 124 - 2020/5. song

Artmagazin's articles are published in the field of contemporary and classical art, focusing on both Hungarian and international events, research, trends, and trends. Our interest also extends to border areas: fashion and design are just as much a topic for us as, for example, the fine arts connection points of theater, architecture, and music. ARTMAGAZIN 124. On the cover of this issue, the star of abstract painting, the Irish-born Sean Scully, has a large-scale live work inspired by Moroccan textiles, which can be seen in the National Gallery by anyone who dares to visit an exhibition despite the virus. And on Szentendré, you can look at Barcsay paintings and even compare the two: how does Scully use the black square, and how did Barcsay reach for the Malevich icon? Judit Reigl also experimented with non-figurativeness, only she in France; freed from the grip of late surrealism, he created valid painting showing processes, explosions, layers stacked on top of each other. The relationship between life events and works unfolds from the conversation with him, and in the next article we get interesting additions about the fate of art objects, for example, what happened to the plaster sketch of a public sculpture that was never realized, and that there were also sculpture studios in the Wagner-demolished near the tomb of Baba Gül in a villa. We also present a contemporary collection that is currently being formed, and we also report on how the wrinkled face of the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History's permanent exhibition, which is already a museum value, is sprinkled with contemporary ideas to start circulation and make it blush a little. On a much larger scale, the same thing is happening in a museum in Rotterdam: there, a separate building that promises to be iconic has been built for the warehouse, in which the public can borrow works for viewing, just like books in a library. And if it's a book: we also draw the strange, yet typical painting career of Péter Ujházi in connection with a recently published volume of studies on his art. As 2020 is Beethoven's commemorative year, questions about his love life arise when confronted with his sculptures at the renewed exhibition of the Martonvásár memorial museum, but the presentation of the strange state of love is also the subject of our article about a new film. And this is strong in the music of Artmagazin: Benjamin Britten is also mentioned, as well as a special performance of the Budapest Puppet Theatre, which is 70 years old this year, which was considered a sensation at the time, The Prince of Pagodas, and its visuals. Finally, epidemic here, epidemic there, we recommend an exhibition again, with such energizing writing that brings back the memory of the beach vacations we missed this year: bodies sunning themselves in the sand, in swimsuits, tell the wonderful Éva Besnyő that there will be more entanglements.