Messiahs – Western man and the idea of redemption in modern and contemporary visual art
2009. Aug. 14. - 2009. Dec. 31.
The theme of the exhibition is messianism and the religious and profane spheres of redemption in Western culture. The exhibition is not intended to present the theme in chronological order, nor to illustrate any historical, theological or psychological perspective. It seeks to present nuanced approaches and cathartic narratives expressed in modern and contemporary visual art in a new context that is able to actualise and make existentially relevant to the visitor the idea of redemption.
Curator: Gulyás Gábor
Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marina Abramovic, Craigie Aitchison, Kai Althoff, Anna Margit, Dieter Appelt, Francis Bacon, Bak Imre, Bálint Endre, Juraj Bartusz, Georg Baselitz, Batthyány Gyula, Beöthy István, Berény Róbert, Berszán Zsolt, Blue Noses, Christian Boltanski, Bortnyik Sándor, August Brömse, Günter Brus, Bukta Imre, Ladislav Carný, Marc Chagall, Václav Chochola, Czigány Dezső, Ignacy Czwartos, Czóbel Béla, Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar, Salvador Dalí, Deim Pál, Wim Delvoye, Derkovits Gyula, Marlene Dumas, Féner Tamás, Emil Filla, Adolf Frohner, Gémes Péter, Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz, Eric Gill, Dariusz Gorczyca, Douglas Gordon, Johannes Grützke, Gulácsy Lajos, Hantaď Simon, Keith Haring, Bernhard Heisig, Damien Hirst, Jörg Immendorf, Jaschik Álmos, Anton Jaszusch, André Kertész, Kicsiny Balázs, Grzegorz Klaman, Eva Kmentova, Kmetty János, Oskar Kokoschka, Marian Konarski, Korniss Dezső, Zofia Kulik, Sigalit Landau, Robert Mapplethorpe, Theresa Margolles, Mátrai Erik, Joan Miró, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Moholy-Nagy László, Otto Muehl, Edvard Munch, Munkácsy Márton, Munkácsy Mihály, Alice Neel, Hermann Nitsch, Ország Lili, Dimitrie Paciurea, Kalervo Palsa, Pauer Gyula, Evan Penny, Pablo Picasso, Cristi Pogacean, Antonín Procházka, Marc Quinn, Alexandru Radvan, Arnulf Rainer, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Reigl Judit, August Rodin, Georges Rouault, Dorota Sadovská, Jan Saudek, Schaár Erzsébet, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Sikora, Miroslaw Sikorski, Frantisek Skála, Leszek Sobocki, Nancy Spero, Aleksandar Stankovski, Volker Stelzmann, Frederic Stork, Jirí Suruvka, Graham Sutherland, Szalay Lajos, Alina Szapocznikow, Szervátiusz Tibor, Norbert Tadeusz, Rufino Tamayo, Antoni Tŕpies, Sorin Tara, Nicolae Tonitza, Tóth Menyhért, Werner Tübke, Uitz Béla, Vajda Lajos, Várnai Gyula, Vaszary János, Bill Viola, Andy Warhol, Carel Weight, Andrzej Wróblewski