Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MÓNIKA KUMIN: On the Exhibitions at the Vasarely Museum in 2007

Milos Urbásek. The international tendencies, and the Anglo-Saxon ones in particular, were represented by a selection from the material of the Museum of Fine Arts' Department of Art after 1800 (Josef Albers, Alberto Burri, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Martin, Kenneth Noland, Tom Phillips, Victor Vasarely). As part of the exhibition entitled "Living Color" Imre Bak introduced Josef Albers's INTERIOR VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION "LIVING COLOUR" . work Interaction of Color, which was published in Hungarian in Dóra Mauer's translation. The exhibition entitled "Black&White" of OSAS (18 May, 2007 - 2 September, 2007) addressed a basic theoretical problem in optics. The works which were selected from the material of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs and Hungarian private collections focused on the exploration of the interrelation of two qualities

—black and white

—in the idioms of constructive-geometric and serial art. Rune Mields's white line drawings drawn on black backgrounds (Der Weltplan als Quadrat, 1980), the organic forms of Etienne Beöthy (Opposites, 1932) and Hans Arp (A la suite relief de VUnesco, 1959) and Simon Hantai's "crumpled" picture (Untitled, no year) touched upon the relationship between the base and the sign and that of leaving a sign or a mark. The monochrome works on display represented the other end of the scale in regard to the problem of black and white. Ulrich Erben's white picture (Goch, 1979) and István Nádler's black gestures on a black background (No. 71, II, 2004) showed the rich diversity of black and white, seen as genuine colours, while colours had their own plastic quality and demonstrated material properties on the reliefs by György Jovánovics (Für Judas, 1980; Black Relief I, 1981) and on the work heavily laid with paint (The Least/Reconstruction, 1996-2007) by András Gál. The works by Tibor Gáyor, András Mengyán, Vera Molnár and Francois Moreilet showed the possibilities inherent in the logical analysis of forms and made an attempt at creating a universal pictorial language. On 11 December, 2006 a concert entitled the Eight-legged Co-operative was organised to complement the exhibitions. A composition written by a Jeney student, Balázs Florváth, and three other young contemporary Hungarian composers (Marcell Dargay, Balázs Futó, Dániel Dinnyés) evoked the musical thinking of Péter Eötvös, György Ligeti, and Zoltán Jeney. Mónika Kuni in