Kisképző 240 (Secondary School of Visual Arts) | Connecting Past and Future

Many well-known and ho­no­u­red vi­su­al and app­li­ed ar­tists emer­ged from the high scho­ol of Török Pál Street, today known as Se­con­dary Scho­ol of Vi­su­al and App­li­ed Arts, which has a 240-year his­to­ry. 

In ac­cor­dance with a 1783 re­gu­la­ti­on, the „Dra­wing Scho­ol” was ob­li­ged not only to coll­ect and keep re­cord of their stu­dents’ best dra­wings but also for the tea­chers to de­monst­ra­te what the know­ledge of arts was by sha­ring their own handc­raf­ted ma­s­ter­pi­e­ces with them every year. This prac­ti­ce has not been stop­ped by his­to­ry’s any fate-tur­ning mo­ment and all the ma­s­ter­pi­e­ces crea­ted in the scho­ol ever since th­ro­ug­ho­ut the va­ri­o­us dif­fe­rent his­to­ri­cal eras have been coll­ec­ted and saved. Thus, sci­en­ti­fic analy­sis and pub­li­ca­ti­on of this spe­ci­al coll­ec­ti­on of art ob­jects built up over a pe­ri­od of 240 years, uni­que at Euro­pe­an stan­dards, has star­ted very re­cently. Today’s stu­dents at­tend­ing our scho­ol are still studying in a fra­me­work of tra­di­tions emb­ra­cing ge­ne­ra­tions, in a uni­que art­work and work­shop en­vi­ron­ment. Thanks to this tra­di­ti­on, most of the out­stand­ing Hun­ga­ri­an fine and app­li­ed ar­tists have eit­her gra­du­a­ted from or taught at this scho­ol.

We can see paint­ings, prints and sculp­tu­res by more than fifty ar­tists, such as: Zsófi Ba­ra­bás, Ákos Bir­kás, Lász­ló Fehér, And­rás Gál, Ádám Kéri, Éva Köves, Ist­ván Nád­ler, Ist­ván Sinkó ,  Mar­git Szil­vitz­ky, Zol­tán Tölg-Mol­nár. The ex­hi­bit­ion is comp­le­men­ted by in­ter­views made by the scho­ol’s cur­rent stu­dents.

 

Cura­tors: Ma­ri­an­na Mayer, Bar­ba­ra Nagy

Kis­kép­ző 240

2019. January 23. - March 10.

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