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» Ópium – Diary of a Madwoman
Thursday, 9 October 2008 7 - 9pm
Ópium – Diary of a Madwoman
(Ópium – Egy elmebeteg nô naplója • János Szász • 2007, feature film, 35mm, colour, 108 min.)
filmclub hosted by László Heckenast
Hungary 1913. The story of Josef Brenner, a writer and doctor, is a Faust story of our
times. Brenner works as a doctor in a mental clinic in the early 20th century. He has been suffering from writer’s block for months, unable to put down even a single line on paper and becoming a morphine addict in the process. One day he gets a new patient, the 28-year-old Gizella. The insane woman, by contrast, keeps writing all the time; she is addicted to her own diary and is unable to put her pen down. The young woman gets increasingly overwhelmed
by the obsession that a cruel alien power has possessed her. Brenner becomes jealous of the
woman, who creates fanatically and brilliantly. The initial doctor-patient relationship gradually transforms: doctor and patient fall in love with each other, and sexual frenzy gets the upper hand in their relation. To make everything come true he has been incapable of so far, Brenner wants to enter into a pact with Evil through the woman’s body. Evil, however, wants Brenner for himself body and soul. The doctor has to pay a big price for this alliance. In return, Gizella asks him to cut out her brain, deliver her from Evil, and bring oblivion for her. Brenner has no choice. He must destroy Gizella: the one and only person he really loved.
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Free.
For reservation please call 0207 240 6162
or e-mail to
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Curators’ Talk 2
Monday, 13 October 2008 7 -9pm
The Curators’ Talk series, initiated by tranzit.hu and the Hungarian Cultural Centre,
aims to introduce contemporary international art curators from Hungary. Active
in various art institutions and representing different approaches and interests the
invited curators present selected projects. At each event a London art professional
is in discussion with their Hungarian colleague.
Between Archives and Exhibitions
Lívia Páldi in discussion with Marysia Lewandowska
This discussion will tackle research into specific archive collections (Balázs Béla
Stúdió, Enthusiasts:archive), and the process of their integration into contemporary art circuits. The question of their recontextualisation and (re)presentation in exhibition format also raise issues of authorship and copyright, as well as the archives’ cultural and political histories.
The talk will be followed by a film program with a selection from the Balázs Béla Stúdió archive and the Enthusiasts: archive (Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska).
Lívia Páldi studied English Literature and Language and Art History at the Eötvös Loránd
University, Budapest. She was co-founder, and between 1997–2000, co-director of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Dunaújváros. In 2000 – 2001 she took part in the Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Since 2005 she has worked as a curator, and since 2007 as chief curator of the Mûcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest. Her curatorial work includes History Continued – Deimantas Narkevicius Mûcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest (2007), !Revolution? (co-curator: Ulrike Kremeier) Mûcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest (2007) Dreamlands burn – Nordic Art Show 2006 (co-curator: Edit Molnár), Mûcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest (2006), Second Present, Trafó Gallery, Budapest (2005).
Marysia Lewandowska is a Polish-born, London-based artist who has collaborated with Neil Cummings since 1995. As artists they have been interested in thinking about and working alongside many of the institutions that choreograph the exchange of values between art and its public. Research has played a central part in all their recent projects which include a book The Value of Things Birkhauser/August 2000; Give & Take at the V & A Museum and Capital inaugurating Contemporary Interventions series at Tate Modern 2001. Their Enthusiasm project has recently been shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Kunst Werke in Berlin and Tapies Foundation in Barcelona in 2005/06 explores through amateur films made by Polish factory workers under socialism, the potential and relevance of working outside of ‘official’ culture and its products.
www.enthusiastsarchive.net
tranzit is a contemporary art initiative supported by the Erste Bank Group.
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Free.
For reservation please call 0207 240 6162
or e-mail
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Gergely Bogányi concert
Thursday, 16 October 2008 7.30pm
MONDAY MUSIC "EXTRA"
Hungarian Embassy, 35 Eaton Place, London, SW1X 8BY
Gergely Bogányi is regarded as one of the most exceptional pianists of our time, and an outstanding international soloist. Born in 1974 in Vác, Hungary, Bogányi began the piano at the age of four. He has studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, under Professors László Baranyay, György Sebôk and Matti Raekallio. His progress caught the attention of the late Annie Fischer, who followed his career with keen interest.
Bogányi has enjoyed success in several national and international competitions, including winning the International Franz Liszt Competition in Budapest in 1996. His awards include the Liszt Prize from the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 2000, the Cross of Merit of the White Rose of Finland from the President of the Finnish Republic in 2002, and the highest cultural award in Hungary, the Kossuth Prize, in 2004. Bogányi has performed as a soloist with the London Philharmonic in 2004, and made numerous recordings, among them the complete Chopin piano works, which recording was awarded the 2001 Hungarian Gramofon Prize in the ‘Best concert event and performing artist in Hungary’ category.
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Free.
For reservations please call 020 7240 6162
or email press@hungary.org.uk
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» Transmitting 2008 ‘White Fire’
Wednesday, 22 October 2008 Wednesday | 22 October – Wednesday | 12 November
exhibition by Andrea Bátorfi
Private View on 22 October | 7–9 pm
Andrea will be talking about her work with writer and psychotherapist Beata Bishop from 7.30pm
‘Everything is wondrous,
inscrutable, veiled, transparent
and clear at the same time, depending on how we awake.’
The Angel Replies by Gitta Malász
In each instance the starting point to my photographs is a photo taken in nature. The images depict natural possibilities found in the real world: details of organically chaotic branch and foliage structures that bring out wonder in very few people. When I walk about in nature, in the midst of observing and photographing in the forest, my senses become more alert and photography turn into a certain meditative activity. I reflect in multiple images a particular section of the photograph that serves as a starting point for my composition, and further cut and reposition them. In this manner a world of virtual nature becomes visible in the new image, sometimes static, sometimes dynamic but in every instance ordered. Based on these handcrafted image variations I create an exact computer-version composition.
These creatures, energy vortexes and forms, are constantly present in nature, however,
inaccessibly for our eyes and sensory organs. I consider my artistic mission to make them visible through translation, channeling- transmission.
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Free.
For reservations please call 020 7240 6162
or email
press@hungary.org.uk
For more information please visit: www.batorfiandrea.hu
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