Black Light – Budapest Park
From August 04, 2019 until September 14, 2019, the exhibition can be visited with a valid entrance ticket to Budapest Park.
Budapest Park is open on every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 6 pm to midnight.
Curator: Emese Mucsi
The total eclipse was a confusing, community-building event for those who stayed outdoors to see it on August 11, 1999, or watched the live broadcasts on television, as the full shadow of the moon was cast over the Earth. The peculiar lights, and the few minutes of daylight darkness were preserved in people’s memories and photo albums as ineffaceable memories. The compact cameras widely available in 1999 made it possible for even amateurs to take loads of private photographs of the event and its viewers. It is through these images and contemporary press photographs that the exhibition presents the spectacle of the celestial phenomenon, the people in their rectangular, Kraftwerk safety glasses, and how people in Hungary dressed in the late nineties; we also get a glimpse into the last grand moment of analog photography before the proliferation of digital cameras.
On the 20th anniversary of the total eclipse of August 11, 1999, the Institution of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros (ICA-D) presents the exhibition Black Light in Dunaújváros, between July 20 and August 23, 2019, in cooperation with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. The organizers have announced a collection campaign for private photographs and private videos related to the Black Light. This installation showcases a selection of the images collected in the course of this campaign, as well as the press photographs unearthed for the exhibition.
Press photos made by:
BÁNKUTI András (HVG), DUDÁS Szabolcs (HVG), FÖLDI Imre (MTI), GYURKÓ Péter (MTI), H. SZABÓ Sándor (MTI), HORVÁTH Ernő (HVG), KÁLMÁNDY Ferenc (MTI), KEGYES András (HVG), KOVALOVSZKY Dániel, MATUSZ Károly (MTI), NEHÉZ-POSONY Kata (168 Óra), NÉMETH Dániel, NÉMETH György (MTI), PATAKY Zsolt (HVG)
Private photos made by:
ARANYI Sándor, BAK Tibor, BALÁZS Imola, BÁLINTNÉ FEKETE Éva, BENDE Lászlóné, BERTÓK Andrea, BESZEDES Viktória, CSEPREGI Miklós, DARVAS Dóra, DERES János, DUNAI Gábor, ESZES Róbert, FEHÉR Vanda, FÖLDVÁRI István Zoltán, FRANKÓ Kata, GÁLOS Tibor, GERHES Gábor, GŐCZE László, HAJDÚ Csilla, HARSÁNYI Péter, dr. HAVAINÉ MALLY Eszter, HECKMANN Antal, HESZBERGER Tímea, JARABIN Tibor, KÁDÁR Krisztina, KÁRPÁTI György Mór, KEDVES Zsófia, KELEMEN Réka, KISS Ervin Gábor, KISS László, KORÉNYI Kinga, KOVÁCS Ágnes, KOVÁCS Tamás, KOVÁCS Viktor, KŐVÁRI László, KRAJLIK József, KULCSÁR Judit, KUNA Adrián, KUSTOR Balázs, MADARÁSZ Krisztina, MÁTYUS Andrea, MEDVE Zsuzsa, MOCSÁR László, MOLNÁR András Péterné, NAGY-DEBRECZENI Márta, NAGY Tibor, OFFRA Flóra, OLÁH János, PATARICZA Máté, PAPP László, PARIS Zoltán, PLAZZERIANO Gábor, PRIBAY Veronika, RUZSA Ágnes, SIKOS Péter, SCHNEIDER Mihály, dr. STRAUSZ János, SZABÓ Gergely, SZABÓ Tamás, SZALAIi Péter, SZENTIRMAI Dóra, SZIKSZAY Gábor, SZŐKE Sándor, TAKÁCSNÉ LŐWINGER Klára, TÓTH Csaba, TÓTH Krisztián, VARGA Árpád, VARGA Szilvia, VEDRES Ági, V. MOLNÁR Imre, dr. ZSELI József, ZSÍROS János
With support from HVG Kiadó Zrt.