The Plain - Stories from the Past Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Fine Arts

MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts

Debrecen

11 May 2014 - 21 September 2014

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<p class="MsoNormal">The motto of the exhibition could be the slogan of a sight-seeing city tour calling locals: be tourist at home! By presenting a unique selection to the spectators, the exhibition shows chapters from the relation of the fine arts and one of the greatest region of the country and the ground of several stereotypes: the Great Hungarian Plain, the location of Debrecen also. The masterpieces, that have never been seen together before, tell stories about the plain painting, faith for tradition and progress. It is considered a rarity that a geographical region is so much accented in a fine arts discourse, even though -or for that reason- it is almost an “anti-landscape” by means of portrayal. The aim of the large-scale exhibition, including more than a hundred artworks, is dual: from one hand, it seeks the spiritual roots of the local culture and the traces of social changes through significant works of Hungarian fine arts, but from the other hand, it questions the spectator’s personal relation to the land. The exhibition invites the visitors for a walk and adventure in the Great Plain as a cultural space.<br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">List of the artists: Gyula Béla Almási, Miklós Barabás, Jenő Barcsay, Sándor Bihari, József Bikessy-Heinbucher, Tibor Boromisza, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Lajos Deák-Ébner, Béla Endre, Péter Erdős, Csaba Fejér, Adolf Fényes, Erzsébet Fülöp, György Haranghy, Ferenc Hézső, László Holló, Georg Höllering, Miklós Izsó, Béla K. Spányi, Miklós Káplár, György Kohán, József Koszta, Mári Kovács, István Kurucz D., Antal Ligeti, Károly Lotz, Zoltán Maghy, Károly Markó, László Mednyánszky, Mihály Munkácsy, István Nagy, József Németh, Soma Orlai Petrich, August von Pettenkofen, Gyula Rudnay, Károly Sterio, Ferenc Szalay, Lenke Szilágyi, János Szurcsik, Mór Than, János Tornyai, Menyhért Tóth, János Zahoray.</p>
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The Plain - Stories from the Past Two Hundred Years of Hungarian Fine Arts

Creations of the collection at the exhibition