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The exhibition, which will run until December 4, 2022, features a selection of contemporary art from the collection of Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), Hungary’s central bank. Examining the connection between words and images in Hungarian contemporary painting, these works are titled Hieroglyphs: Calligraphy, Symbols, Gestures, and Alphabet Images.
The exhibition also features 12 well-known Hungarian artists who are well known and recognized in the Hungarian and international art world. Many of them were leading figures of the new Hungarian avant-garde in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as others associated with the surreal calligraphic paintings of Simon Hantai, whose work was exhibited at the Louvre Abu Dhabi out.
The works in the exhibition build on the abstract tendencies of modern art, the different writing traditions of great cultures, and the need to express a sense of presence. Their pictorial value connects the personal with the universal, as well as new ways of creating spatiality and restoring spirituality on the basis of ancient texts.
MNB Arts and Culture Consultant and Program Coordinator Anna Bagyó emphasized the importance of calligraphy to Islamic culture and suggested writing as a potential theme for the exhibition, given its value not only as a work of art but also as a source of inspiration.
The theme of the exhibition is expanded by a series of award-winning Hungarian animation films, most of which have been screened at prestigious international film festivals.
The films will be divided into two sections, 14 films for children and 32 films for adults.
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