Everyday communism. The Rákosi–Era
2008. Jul. 25. - 2008. Oct. 26.
How is political propaganda integrated into everyday life? The exhibition, featuring documentary photographs, posters, newsreels, and feature films, presented the Hungarian realization of Orwell’s utopia. The exhibition material, selected from the MTI photo archive, sought to contextualize the Socialist Realism exhibition, which opened two weeks earlier and presented paintings from the Rákosi era. Comparing the paintings with the photographs is a frightening experience. They feed from the same root: the painters depict with photo-like realism, while the photographers capture idealized compositions in a painterly manner. They present in their original form the monstrosities conceived in the minds of the top leaders of state socialism and embodied in the works of artists.
Curator: Gulyás Gábor
Artist: An exhibition of recordings made by the Hungarian Telegraph Office (MTI) between 1948 and 1956