Special Mini Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest

Yoga with actress Gabi Hámori, a concert with Alex Szilasi, a sound bath and guided tours at the Saturday mini festival of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, writes Magyar Nemzet. On Saturday, March 23, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., the museum will offer visitors a truly invigorating program in connection with the exhibition “Gateways in Existence – The Tree as a Motif from Pieter Bruegel to Alexandre Hollan.”

As part of the mini festival, a guided tour of the “Gateways in Existence” exhibition will show visitors how the representation of the forest landscape has changed over the centuries, how the forces of nature were captured by artists of the past, and how the contemporary classic, Alexandre Hollan, created his meditative drawings.

Fact

Alexandre Hollan (born Sándor Hollán, 1933) is a Hungarian graphic artist and painter. He emigrated in 1956 and currently lives in France. His main motif is the tree, which he depicts mainly in series paintings in ink or charcoal. At the end of the 1960s, landscape and then the house motif appeared in his paintings. Since the beginning of the 1970s, the white of the paper becomes more dominant in his works.

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During Saturday’s program lovers of movement and art can enjoy yoga with actress Gabriella Hámori in the spacious, sunlit Baroque Hall, with an emphasis on strengthening and calming the mind.

Zoltán Vass, psychologist, will give a lecture on the symbolic meaning of trees, entitled “What do our drawings say about us?”. Through the works on display, visitors will learn more about the theoretical basis of the psychological study of woodcuts, in particular the analysis of the form and structure of drawings of trees, the psychological meaning of certain features of drawings and a new method of computer-based algorithmic analysis of drawings.

At the mini festival, singer-songwriters Dorina Takács (Дeva, Deva) and Gergely Balla (Platon Karataev) will be joined by museum educator Judit Cser to discuss the transcendent experience of dissolving into creation and how sound – or silence -, image and word can intertwine.

To close, pianist Alex Szilasi’s musical performance, entitled “Growth Rings,” will be accompanied by musical moods inspired by trees and the sounds of their transcendent world.