Abstract Hungary

Since the 1960s, artists in Hungary have displayed a penchant for abstraction when it comes to complex social conditions and efforts to enact political change.The abstracted visual language of Hungarian artists is the focus in the K nstlerhaus exhibition
bstract Hungary curated by kos Ezer, a painter who in this catalog hastranslated the present-day reality in his home country through the framework of abstraction. This theme is, in fact, a revival, as the K nstlerhaus has previously presented the group exhibition Abstract Hungary in 2017. With a sweeping selection of twenty-four Hungarian artists, including Imre Bak, Tamas Kaszas, D ra Maurer, and Zsolt Tibor, the show was devoted to methods of abstraction of varying dialogical nature. The exhibition represented a broader narrative blueprint of the hotly debated term abstraction and showed both established and aspiring artistic positions, some of which were exhibited there in Austria for the first time.;This exhibition catalogue seeks to expand these two eponymous projects, and consolidate the abstracted view of Hungary.;Contributors;David Feher, ron Fenyvesi, Michael Wimmer, M nika Zsikla;Published by Sternberg Press and K nstlerhaus Halle f r Kunst und Medien, Graz AT;