Dialogue on the Experience of Architecture
International pop-up exhibition at Capa Center
Visiting is free of charge
November 20–28, 2021
Wednesday–Friday: 2pm–7pm
Saturday–Sunday: 11am–7pm
Closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Capa Center – Project Room
Curators: Márton Barki, art historian and Bernadette Dán, cultural manager, staff of the Hungarian Cultural Center of the Liszt Institute in Stuttgart
Exhibiting Artists: Dr. Ralph Fischer, Zoltán Tombor
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The international pop-up photo exhibition in the partnership of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Center in Stuttgart and the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Center is the very first Hungarian presentation of one of the noble, traditional series of the institute in Stuttgart. The exhibition is housed in the Project Room of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest. The essence of the successful exhibition-serie, entitled Künstlerbegegnungen (Artists’ Meetings), is that it presents selected works from the oeuvre of a Hungarian and a local German artist based on a specific concept. So, the duo exhibitions are more acceptable to the local audience, and Hungarian artists who are still unknown in Germany are be able to come to the fore with the help of a German medium and a co-creator.
The Schwabian participant Dr. Ralph Fischer, is a renowned photographer who is also a significant member of the Friendchips Association linked to the Liszt Institute in Stuttgart. The half of the selection is based on his new album, which contains photographs created in the spirit of so called ‘Neues Sehen’ (New Vison or New Optik), and were captured from unique perspectives on the Bauhaus in Dessau, the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, Hfg in Ulm and Pausa in Mössingen.
Zoltán Tombor, the Hungarian artist of the exhibition, which runs under the title DIALOG in the German-speaking world, began his career in the world of fashion photography but during his several years spent in Milan and New York he diligently captured the objects of the built environment from a very special point of view. After a recently presented solo material, the selection shows no less intimate versatility.
Both have a common thread towards László Moholy-Nagy, so the title of one of Moholy-Nagy’s books in German influenced the title of the recent exhibition, which was composed in pairs and groups and focused on building segments.
The two photographs attached short notes for the image analogies, which visitors can view and listen to, scanning the QR codes on the title boards.
International mini-symposium related to the exhibition
Date: November 20, 2021, 10am–1pm (with short break)
Venue: Capa Center – Project Room
The presentations will be held in English, without interpretation.
The idea of the symposium arose in connection with the DIALOG duo exhibition of two photographers Zoltán Tombor and Dr Ralph Fischer, realized in the workshop of the Hungarian Cultural Center of the Liszt Institute in Stuttgart. During the curatorial process, the artists were only able to meet through their work, while various associations and institutions were expected to have a fruitful relationship at their level through conscious connecting work. One of the first such results of the collaboration is this event, where Bálint Jaksa, a freelance building photographer, will present building photography as an old-new genre in his far not dry-professional lecture, and Gábor Megyeri, the head of the Napraforgó Street Bauhaus Association will reveal some secret details about the modernist estate in his subjective presentation. Dr. Anja Krämer, the director of the Weissenhofmuseum im Haus Le Corbusier, and Anna Sebestyén, art historian museologist at MÉK / MDK, will talk about the development of modern estates in the late 1920s and their influence in Hungary. The choice of topics for the four presentations deliberately allows for approaches that are narrow in scope, from other hand give free way for very different perspectives.
Program
10:00 Introduction: Márton Barki, art historian, Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Center Stuttgart
10:05 Bálint Jaksa architecture photographer: From the Frog Perspective to the Bird’s Eye View: Building Photography as a New-Old Genre
10:40 Anna Ágnes Sebestyén museologist, art historian, Hungarian Architecture Museum – Monument Protection Documentation Center: “Travels around Budapest and Stuttgart”
11:10 Gábor Megyeri head of the Napraforgó Street Bauhaus Association: Behind the curtain of Sunflower street
11:40 Dr Anja Krämer, art historian, director of the Weissenhofmuseum im Haus Le Corbusier: Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart 1927 – an exhibition with 17 statements on modern living
The event is realized with the partnership of the Hungarian Architecture Museum – Monument Protection Documentation Center and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center.