The latest exhibition of Sándor Molnár (1936-2022) presents a selection of the Kossuth Prize-winning painter’s early landscapes from the second half of the 1950s to the early 1970s.
The works on display were created in an era when the stylistic censorship of the Kádár regime made it impossible to learn about avant-garde and modern trends, and it was difficult to gain access to new information about current trends in universal art from behind the Iron Curtain.
However, Molnár, as the intellectual leader of the Zugló Circle, actively researched the latest achievements of European abstract painting in an informal setting, and developed his individual creative vision and painterly character in the light of the progressive trends he had come to know.
From the 1960s onwards, he created his works within the theoretical framework of his own self-developed painting yoga, and the selection of works on display in the gallery, which spans the ages, presents Sándor Molnár’s efforts to create a purely intellectual painting through works of museum quality.