Interthinking

Group Exhibition: Interthinking, Budapest Art Factory, Hungary

Interthinking, curated by Kate Vass Galerie. Opening event on October 18, 2024.

The Interthinking exhibition is curated by Kate Vass Galerie. The gallery has worked on this exhibition in collaboration with the Kepes Institute.

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The exhibition showcases artworks by these esteemed artists, including László Moholy-Nagy, Victor Vasarely, Nicolas Schöffer, György Kepes, Vera Molnár, André Kertész, and Brassai. In addition to the Hungarian masters’ works, the show features contemporary pieces by internationally known artists who either draw inspiration from or reflect upon the aesthetic and thematic breakthroughs pioneered by these masters, exclusively created for this show. The exhibition will display works by Iskra Velitchkova, Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez , Kevin Abosch, Laura Rautjoki, Mario Klingemann, Studio u2p050 and Julien Gachadoat. This global selection of contemporary artists demonstrates the wide-reaching influence of Hungarian art on generative and digital art practices worldwide.

Which work by Brassaï resonates with you the most, and how has it inspired the conceptual direction of your current work?

At first, I browsed through Brassaï’s photographs rather casually, without much deeper analysis. However, time and again, my gaze kept returning to a particular image titled Madame Bijou. The image lingered in my subconscious, and one night, I realized why it felt so familiar: I had seen it before in James Cameron’s film Titanic, where Jack showcases his drawings from Paris. In the scene, Jack describes a woman who dressed every night in all the jewelry she owned, wearing moth-eaten clothes while waiting for her lost love. This association led me to delve deeper into the character of Madame Bijou and how she has been represented both in photographic art and popular culture. Seeing Madame Bijou depicted in Cameron’s film made me reflect on how power and the use of images can influence the portrayal of characters, especially women. This realization sparked a need in me to explore and challenge this portrayal. I began to deepen my research on Madame Bijou, and the more I learned about her life — or what stories and myths suggest about her — the more I became intrigued by how her intelligence and the many dimensions of her life were often overshadowed when she was portrayed solely as a melancholic and impoverished figure.

An excerpt from the Interthinking exhibition catalog, available here.

Elisabeth Karolyi's review about Interthinking group exhibition on artpress.com.
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Hungary’s leading art magazine, Artmagazin.hu, published an article written by Ágnes Ferenczi about the Interthinking group exhibition in Budapest.
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Index.hu, one of Hungary’s largest news portals, wrote an article about the Interthinking group exhibition in Budapest.
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Installation Photographs: Orsolya Egressy