Art Exhibit Opens Showing 111 Years of Hungarian Animation
February 21, 2025
2,923
The Kunsthalle introduces its new exhibition titled Vision, gesture, experiment – Hungarian animation art is 111 years old. It aims to introduce the history of Hungarian animation, its most important creators and their films. It can be viewed until April 27th.
“Animation is an inescapable genre of contemporary art, as it is the area where all artistic disciplines meet, from literature to fine arts and music,” said Éva M. Tóth, curator of the exhibition, at the presentation of the exhibition on Thursday. The curator said that the main focus of the exhibition was to show these connections and to present the most exciting parts of the past 111 years of Hungarian animation in three rooms. She added that
the selection focuses specifically on auteur animation, which is a strong and dominant area in the history of Hungarian animation as a whole, but one that is also the least known to the general public.
In the first room, entitled Vision, four great artists, Áron Gauder, József Gémes, Marcell Jankovics and Sándor Reisenbüchler, will welcome visitors with a well-known work each. Sándor Reisenbüchler would have been 90 years old this year, so his exceptional work will be commemorated with a screening during the exhibition.
MTI/Lakatos Péter
In the second room, entitled Gesture, the organizers have selected films, most of which are instantly recognizable for their style, or for their particular technical or dramaturgical features. These works mostly push the boundaries of genre, although with less clear intent than the films in the next selection, Experiment.
In this last unit, for example, we see the Oscar-winning animation work The Fly by Ferenc Rófusz, which was a real novelty at the time of its production for its background animation technique.
MTI/Lakatos Péter
Ferenc Cakó’s homo animation is also one of the border crossers because of its unusual use of materials, but this room also contains moving images created at the Béla Balázs Studio, in which animation is organically combined with music or visual art, or even creates a new quality together with them, as well as unique moving images that were not made for the screen.
Related article
Photo Exhibition about Eastern European Life Opens
The exhibition titled Europe – From an Eastern European Perspective is opening on Thursday.Continue reading
A legjobb élmény biztosítása érdekében olyan technológiákat használunk, mint a cookie-k az eszközadatok tárolására és/vagy eléréséhez. Ha beleegyezik ezekbe a technológiákba, akkor olyan adatokat dolgozhatunk fel ezen az oldalon, mint a böngészési viselkedés vagy az egyedi azonosítók. A hozzájárulás elmulasztása vagy visszavonása bizonyos funkciókat és funkciókat hátrányosan érinthet.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.