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Arts Calendar / July 7 / Exhibitions
Robert Capa: Retrospective
Robert CapaIn Days of Hungarian Culture the Multimedia Art Museum presents an exhibition of Robert Capa, the classic of picture stories, the founder of the legendary photo agency Magnum. Robert Capa was born as Endre Friedmann in Budapest but left Hungary at a very young age because of his political involvement in the leftist opponents of the then dictator Miklós Horthyn. He moved to Berlin where he studied at the Hochschule für Politik. He worked first as a photo lab technician and then as a photography assistant for a German photo agency (Dephot). Capa made his entrance as a professional photographer in 1932 when the Zeitung published his report of a meeting of Leon Trotsky in Copenhagen. Despite his disgust for everything associated with war, he was best known for the inimitable way he covered conflicts like the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and the First Indo-China War. He worked as a photographer for magazines such as Vu, Life, Regards, Le Soir and the Weekly Illustrated, and after WW II in 1947 founded the press photo agency Magnum Photos together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. Not only his presence in major war zones but also his friendships with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck yielded images that to this day are inscribed in the collective memory. Robert Capa died on May 25, 1954 in Indo-China following an accident with a landmine. The exhibition "Robert Capa: Retrospective 1932–-1954" draws on the full range of Robert Capa's work to reveal the scope and richness of his photography while reaffirming his greatness as a war photographer. The exposition includes 120 Capa's works which the Hungarian National Museum bought from the International Center of photography in New York in 2008.
Multimedia Art Museum 
The Great Modernists: Revolution in the Arts
The Great ModernistsA unique multimedia show world premiere! Nine great artists - nine films in living color! An amazing combination of music and painting! High resolution laser beam projectors, 500 square meters of displays, more than 1000 animated paintings, 15 kilowatts of 3d sound. "The Great Modernists. Revolution in the Arts show & exhibition" presents the works of nine of the top modernist painters, i.e. Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustav Klimt, Paul Signac, Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vincent van Gogh. This is an original and integrated show consisting of nine short films covering the core images used by each of the artists. In total, the exhibition displays about 1000 pieces of art from more than 20 museums all around the world. The paintings are projected on large screens one after another that bring them to life. See them moving to the rhythm of the music, drawing the spectator into a swirl of color and sound. Besides, the exhibition offers educational options. Before visiting the exhibition itself, visitors can plunge into the milieu of the Modernist period in the specially fitted out forehall to find out what compelled these artists to reject Realism and instead paint things like the Black Square. "Incredible both in terms of concept and implementation! I confess – I can be hard to please, but at this exhibition I have to say that everything is simply exquisit, the venue is perfect; even more overwhelming than the cinema. Music, sound and light are just right! This event is not only for art-lovers, but for all family members aged 3 to 90 years" (Mikhail Politseymako, actor, TV presenter). "I enjoed the idea and this is the first time that I've seen a "live canvas" in person. It's an incredible feelinf when you are plunge into the paintings, into the artists' world, when your eyes and ears enjoy the aesthetics" (Nadya Ruchka, singer). "This is the perfect way to explain to your children what the difference is between Paul Gausin and Wassily Kandinsky, and what is so interesting about it" (Yuri Saprykin, journalist). "What I saw here today was beyond my wildest imagination. It is absolutely incredible. The atmosphere of the time and the special style developed by these artists was recreated in an exact manner. You are invited to examine every detail about these gorgeous, exqusite and amazing pieces of art. I am very impressed!" (Tonya Klimenko, singer, Mobilnye Blondinki group). "Absolutely great! Much better than going to the cinema! The flow of images and emotions is incredible" (Dmitry Nosov, judoist). At the dawn of the 20th centuries, every year brought new breakthroughs, such as gramophones, cinemas, typewriters, electricity, airplanes, telephones, X-rays. New things made people euphoric about new possibilities, but there was some anxiety along with this. And so, we see the appearance of distance between reality and the way it is painted. The main problem was not about the painted matter, but about the painting method (not the what but the how). The artist does not set out to render a painting of sometime that looks as close to reality as possible. Instead, the main task is to focus the viewer’s attention through spots and lines arranged in a certain way. Thus, Paul Signac turns everything he sees into a net made of myriads light points. The forms in paintings by Paul Gauguin are a combination of color points that bring us from the large industrial cities to the source-point of civilization; the images of Gustav Klimt hide behind oriental splendor. Wassily Kandinsky applies schematics to derive free associations. Generally, modernist paintings are enigmatic, forming a kind of labyrinth to the sight. By using open outlines, broken lines, vague contours, unexpected contrasts and incoherent compositions, modernism offers an inexhaustible source of meanings where the tradition sees only chaos and absurdity. Being exquisite and enigmatic, the modernist paintings are targeted at people who are comfortable with cinema and mass media, at people who are used to an endless flow of visual data, who know how to understand images and who are sensitive to purely aesthetic effects. A hundred years ago, the paintings by modernists acted as nunciate of the new hi-tech future and this is why these paintings find a new life through digital technologies so easily.
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