An exhibition of Moholy-Nagy’s early work opened on April 24th at the National Gallery of Hungary and will run till August. The exhibition, entitled “Technical Detours; the Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered,” has been curated by University of Manitoba art historian, Professor Oliver Botar, who discovered a previously unknown early painting by Moholy-Nagy on the back of a well-known Constructivist painting, Architektur I. The exhibition has already been presented, in cooperation with the Salgo Educational Trust, at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutger’s University and from December 2007 until now it was on view at the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pecs, southern Hungary. The National Gallery exhibition is an enlarged version of the previous ones and is accompanied by a beautiful 200 page catalogue, also prepared by Professor Botar and now translated and published in Hungarian as well. The exhibition features works by Moholy-Nagy between 1916-1923 and some works by other artists such as Bela Uitz, Lajos Kassak, Kurt Schwitters, Kokoschka and other contemporaries. We congratulate Professor Botar on this exciting project which is receiving great acclaim and extensive media coverage everywhere. Canadian ambassador Pierre Guimond participated at the opening. Oliver Botar is a member of the Advisory Board of our Foundation.
For more information about the exhibit visitors may wish to see the following sites in English:
and the following reviews of the Pecs and Budapest shows in Hungarian: