Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)

ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - KRISZTINA PASSUTH: Monet and Friends

TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS MONET AND FRIENDS 1 December 2003-15 March 2004 Curators: Judit Geskó and Sophie Barthélémy Monet et ses amis, ed. Judit Geskó, Vince Kiadó, Budapest 2003, 358 pp., French, 131 col. and 66 b&w. ills., ISBN 963 9552 02 X, 963 9552 03 8 Only those who have ever arranged a show themselves can fully appreciate just how many diverse conditions influence an exhibition, as the visible final outcome of a prolonged process. Chance and unforeseeable factors play a much greater role than one could expect or even surmise beforehand. It is the task of the curator - or in fact, one of the many tasks to channel these factors, and with them, or counter to them, to compose a functioning, organic whole that appears to the viewer that it is good exactly as it is. More precisely, it doesn't even enter the viewer's mind that it could have been done another way. The famous curator, Harald Szeemann, following the arrangement of one of his extremely successful shows, which was highly esteemed by all who saw it, held a slide lecture at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in which he presented on the one hand, those paintings that he would have liked to exhibit according to his original ideas, and on the other hand, those that he ultimately selected in the absence of the former. And it may just be that the final result was actually better than it might have been according to the original plan. 57. Queuing up for the exhibition