---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: SPECTRE Digest, Vol 118, Issue 7 From: [email protected] Date: Wed, December 5, 2012 1:00 pm To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:37:51 +0100 From: Maja & Reuben Fowkes <[email protected]> (by way of Janos Sugar) Subject: re:[spectre]Fwd: fatal strike for hungarian art To: [email protected] The lunatics have taken over the asylum Hard to believe at first, but it seems to be true that Hungary's second most important art space, the Mcsarnok/Kunsthalle, will find itself from 1st January 2013 under the ownership and control of an ultra conservative arts organisation, the Hungarian Artistic Academy or MMA, which has stealthily been installed as the leading authority for Hungarian art, with its preeminent position written in to the new constitution or Basic Law and bolstered by a huge grant from the government. This coup de force has triggered protest letters and petitions from both private gallerists and the Hungarian branch of AICA, who warn that the move will undo decades of progress towards the integration of Hungarian contemporary art within international circuits. The political and aesthetic views of the president of the MMA, whose name is Fekete and often also dresses in black, are well symbolised by the fact that he earlier criticised the director of the Mcsarnok for his show Mi a Magyar?/What is Hungarian? for 'blaspheming' the Hungarian nation, which was ironic considering that most art critics had rightly recognised the exhibition as basically in line with the government's nationalist cultural agenda and that Gábor Gulyás had himself been directly appointed to the position by the government, overriding the usual procedures and against the wishes of progressives in the art world. Cue 'fellow-traveller' GG's resignation, and the penny finally drops that only mind-blowing ultra-traditionalist tendencies are welcome in the shrinking world of state-sponsored Hungarian art. http://beyondeast.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-lunatics-have-taken-over-the-asylum/ _______________________________________________ SPECTRE mailing list [email protected] http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre End of SPECTRE Digest, Vol 118, Issue 7 *************************************** -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
