EPPUR SI MOVIE! IMXXX – Intermedia Retrospective
Vernissage: Tuesday, 14th December, 2021, 18:00, Barcsay Hall, Hungarian University of Fine Arts,
1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69-71
On view till the 29th of January, 2022.
The Hungarian University of Fine Arts commemorates the 150th anniversary of its foundation with a wide-ranging series of jubilee programs spanning the entire academic year. The next large, representative exhibition of the MKE150 / HUFA150 events celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Intermedia Department.
“Because this world…is a movie palace…life is not algebra, but a sound film…
- True! Epurci move… - said the mechanic.
- And, yet, it’s movies! – nodded Maxbell.”
P. Howard (Jenő Rejtő): Dirty Fred Intervenes. Albatrosz books; Magvető, Budapest, 1966. (2) p. 254.
The Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts was established between 1990 and 1993, in parallel with the historical - political transformations that took place in the region, and largely as a result of the demands of the students. Two outstanding professors of the department, János Sugár, who is the current head of the department and Miklós Peternák, the curator of the “EPPUR SI MOVIE! IMXXX” exhibition started to create the program of the Intermedia Department, working closely with the students. The initial period of the department was most like an experimental workshop; the teachers, who were prominent Hungarian representatives of contemporary culture, trained the students following a flexible syllabus. In the complex educational program, great care was taken to organise special art events as well as to invite international lectureres and artists. In addition to social changes, the history of the intermedia specialisation is also in parallel with the spread of the Internet and interactive techniques, the total and global transformation of communication and imaging devices, the technical media as a whole. From the very beginning, the Intermedia Department has considered its task to expand art education to art forms and art techniques that first appeared in 20th-century fine art, such as photokinetic and electronic arts, multimedia, installation and action arts, as well as new communication techniques.
The aim of the " EPPUR SI MOVIE! – IMXXX” jubilee exhibition is not to fully cover the history of the intermedia department; instead, both in the exhibition hall and on the virtual platforms, it focuses on students' works made for this exhibition, giving shapshots of some events, personalities and works in the history of the Intermedia Department. The distinctive feature of the intermedia faculty is that the use of any technique, method or medium suitable for artistic expression is permitted; the refreshing variety and electrifying diversity thus created also characterises the "And Yet It Is Movies! IMXXX – Intermedia Retrospective” exhibition.
We have chosen the medium of the film, the moving image as the central element of the exhibition, as the most radical transformation of the last three decades can be attributed to this. Although we know from Plato that time is a moving image of eternity, the title and motto of the Intermedia retrospective exhibition comes from the much better known Hungarian novelist, Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard): "And yet it’s movies." These words, quite simply, express it all.
Exhibiting artists: BÁCSI Barnabás, BARNAFÖLDI Anna, CSÖKÖLY Adél, HOÓZ Anna, KOVÁCS Gyula A., LESTÁL Hella, MELYKÓ Richárd, PÁTKAI Rozina, PLESZNIVY Ákos, SZÉCSÉNYI-NAGY Loránd, TIHANYI Áron, TULISZ Hajnalka, as well as several former and present students of the Intermedia in the frame of collective projects.
Opening address: LÁZÁR Eszter art historian, SUGÁR János Head of the Intermédia Department. Music: PÁTKAI Rozina.
On view: 15 December 2021 – 29 January 2022
Monday-Friday: 2 PM-7 PM, Saturday: 10 AM - 6 PM
The University is closed between 21 December 2021 – 3 January 2022
EPPUR SI MOVIE! IMXXX – Intermedia Retrospective
Exhibition production team:
MKE150 / HUFA150 project leader LÁZÁR Eszter
MKE 150 communication: KUBIK Elvira
Exhibition installation: PERLAKI József
Exhibition coordinators: BARTA Edit, USZKAY Tekla
Web: NYÍRI Géza
Logotype, poster, graphics: Gábor Palotai Design
Curator: PETERNÁK Miklós, in cooperation with BAKOS Gábor, BÁCSI Barnabás, FERNEZELYI Márton, KISSPÁL Szabolcs, RIGÓ Mária, SÓLYOM András, SZEGEDY-MASZÁK Zoltán, TIHANYI Áron as well as the professors & the students of the intermedia department.
Cooperating partner: The National Film Institute Hungary
Special thanks: FAZEKAS Eszter
Special contribution: C3 Foundation http://www.c3.hu/
Supported by The National Cultural Fund of Hungary
(Intermedia logo)
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Intermedia Department
H-1063 Budapest, Kmety Gy. utca 27.
Tel.: +36 1 373 0069
Fax: +36 1 373 0070
Press material
The website of the exhibition http://www.mke.hu/IMXXX
