Vera Molnar and Judit Reigl settled in France after the Second World War and became inescapable artistic figures not only in French, but primarily in European culture.
Judit Reigl’s works have sold for some of the highest prices in Hungarian contemporary art. Reigl became world-famous after the 1950s for her combination of surrealism and gesture-based abstraction. His works are preserved in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the MoMA in New York. Vera Molnar, who died last year, is considered a pioneer of computer art and the most celebrated figure in contemporary women’s art today, and this year she staged a giga-exhibition of her work at the Pompidou.
While the work of Márta Kucsora and Kati Vilim will introduce the audience to two artists of the middle generation of non-figurative art, both disciples of the world-famous pioneer of mathematical-based art, Attila Kovács. Kati Vilim has been living in New York for twenty years and is an active participant in contemporary American art, with works in American public and private collections. Although Márta Kucsora is based in Hungary, she studied in Montclair, USA, and in recent years her successes have been primarily in Asia and the US.
The curator of the exhibition, Dr. Flóra Mészáros, art historian and international expert on non-figurative art, aims to explore the world of non-figurative art and the thinking of four women artists in a different way than usual. Reflecting on the title and concept of her exhibition Making Space at MoMa in New York, which explored the rise of women artists and the distinctive socially-based art issues of the past fifty years, the Eger exhibition aims not only to be an example of artistic thinking that focuses on the importance of women artists, but also to explore key issues in art of the past decades.
The exhibition is not based on the presentation of impact techniques, nor does it focus on artistic parallels, but analyses phenomena such as the changing experience of space, the performative nature of painting, our reaction to virtuality and the information society, or our relationship with nature.