Reka Reisinger at Real Art Ways

InterUrbanArt is very pleased to announce that Reka Reisinger will be displaying her work at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT this August. The exhibition opens on 21 August and runs through 14 September.

Real Art Ways is one of the leading alternative multi-disciplinary arts organizations in the United States.

Their website can be found here:

http://www.realartways.org

Hungarian Government Establishes Contemporary Collection

Hungarian Culture minister Istvan Hiller announced in early March that the ministry will provide up to 50 million Hungarian forints (EUR 192,000/USD 300,000) each year for a new contemporary art collection. Under a three-year agreement, the ministry will contribute one forint for every two forints donated by the business sector.

The ministry's funding comes with a condition, however: that the contemporary art collection spend 5–10 million forints of the annual funding on works by artists involved in a government-backed scholarship system.

This development is certainly a postive step towards establishing awareness of contemporary art in Hungary.

InterUrbanArt will, through several channels, lobby to place artists that it is working with in this new collection.

Budapest in New York

If you are in New York City this weekend for the art fairs, by all means stop by and see the Budapest Art Factory booth at the Art Now Fair at Hotel 30/30 located at 30 East 30th Street. This is the first time a Hungarian contemporary art gallery has exhibited at a New York art fair.

Works by Zsolt Bodoni, Dora Juhasz, Marta Kucsora, and Mamikon Yengibarian are on display. Be sure to check out the installation by Agnes Verebics in the lobby.

http://www.artnowfair.com

Budapest Rising

InterUrbanArt and the Budapest Art Factory are pleased to announce that the work of Zsolt Bodoni is currently featured in an article in Architectural Digest:

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/homes/2008/03/summers_article

Zsolt's work will also be displayed later this year in London at fa projects in a show curated by esteemed art critic Jane Neal.

For further information on Zsolt's work, please contact Edward Mocsi at InterUrbanArt...mocsi@optonline.net

Congratulations to Zsolt and Dianne Brown, founder of the Budapest Art Factory.

In the Finest Tradition of André Kertész, Robert Capa & Brassaï

The work of Nandor Losonci is a paean to his legendary Hungarian compatriots. He is currently working on a travelogue of photographs of major European cities viewed from the perspective of, or inspired by, famed authors associated those cities.

Unknown Contemporary Legend

"Beuys Strangling", 1980, 200 x 140 cm

Karoly Kelemen is one of the seminal figures of Hungarian contemporary art. His "eraser paintings", created mainly in the 1970s and 80s (he re-visited the style in the early 2000s), are prime examples of "blue chip" Hungarian contemporary art that is almost entirely unknown internationally outside of a handful of inner circles.

These paintings are graphite on canvas, and on average measure 2 meters x 3 meters (6 ft. x 9ft). Kelemen "paints" them by erasing.

Karoly Kelemen is represented by a very well-respected Budapest gallery but, amazingly, has no international representation.

More information can be found about his work at http://www.memoart.eu/. Please mention Edward Mocsi/InterUrbanArt when contacting the gallery.

If these paintings were in a gallery on West 24th Street...

A toast to Jozsef Csato, who has an exhibition opening in Budapest tonight (11th December)...