{"id":50874,"date":"2026-10-07T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modemart.hu\/?post_type=product&#038;p=50874"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:13:46","slug":"the-image-of-colour-the-mystery-of-the-image","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/modemart.hu\/en\/modem-shop\/the-image-of-colour-the-mystery-of-the-image\/","title":{"rendered":"The Image of Colour, the Mystery of the Image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MODEM\u2019s current exhibition, <em>The Image of Colour, the Mystery of the Image<\/em>, presents a comprehensive selection of monochrome paintings from the Antal\u2013Lusztig Collection, one of Hungary\u2019s most significant private art collections. Its owner, Dr P\u00e9ter Antal, began acquiring monochrome paintings in the mid-2000s. Now comprising more than five hundred works, they form a distinct section of his collection. Over the past decades, selections of varying sizes have appeared in numerous exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. Yet this body of work has never been shown in its entirety. Its significance lies, in part, in the exceptional commitment of its collector: thanks to his dedication, the spirit and legacy of monochrome painting remain present in Hungarian art discourse, both through individual artists\u2019 sustained practices and through the press coverage accompanying exhibitions drawn from the Antal\u2013Lusztig Collection. This helps sustain an ongoing discussion of the subject and firmly establishes Hungarian monochrome painting within its historical and international context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1978, Marcia Hafif, one of the foremost representatives of monochrome painting, published her seminal essay <em>Beginning Again<\/em>, in which she deconstructed the medium of painting by tracing its historical precedents. She proposed that, in order to begin painting again, we must examine the statements made by Rodchenko, Malevich, Strzemi\u0144ski, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and others concerning the end of painting. A moment had arrived when, as she wrote, \u201cpainting as an endeavour had become questionable and had been placed \u2018under erasure\u2019.\u201d One possible response was for \u201cartists who were still interested in painting to begin analysing it and return to the fundamental question of what painting is\u201d\u2014not to define painting, but to breathe life into it by starting all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on Marcia Hafif\u2019s theoretical propositions, Joseph Marioni, one of the best-known American monochrome painters, described monochrome painting as a \u201cmovement\u201d best understood as a twentieth-century investigation into the defining principles of painting. As such, it enabled painters committed to monochromy to bring together the lessons of their predecessors and a fundamental examination of painting itself. Taking painting\u2019s material components as their starting point while moving beyond abstraction, the artists associated with this investigation established new foundations for the relationship between painting (image) and viewer, redefined the conceptual pairing of painting (image) and object, and, above all, freed the materiality of paint from the centuries-old constraints of representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organised into 7+1 distinct sections, this exhibition of works selected from the monochrome holdings of the Antal\u2013Lusztig Collection guides visitors along a route that is both physical and imaginary. Beginning with the material components of painting, it follows the investigations of monochrome painters through seemingly self-evident concepts such as gesture, pictorial space, the boundaries of the image and its layers. The works by Hungarian and international artists assembled in each section do more than enrich our understanding of these concepts. They also bring us closer to the mystery of painting through which, once the material of paint had been liberated, a particular type of portrait could emerge: one that depicts the image of colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the painters represented in the individual sections are concerned with the self-referential conditions of painting. The visual language of monochromy offers the surest ground for their investigations, allowing them to reject radically both the communication of messages and the presentation of narrative content. Through monochromy, the proponents of Radical Painting focus on the structural examination of the painting and its support, while also emphasising colour and the painting\u2019s character as an object. They treat colour as an autonomous entity, distinct from any surface or form, and present this independent entity to the viewer through the possibilities offered by the physical dimensions of the pictorial object, existing for its own sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curator:<\/strong> M\u00f3nika Zsikla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Artists:<\/strong> Marcus ABEL \/ Giuseppe AMADIO \/ Anne APPLEBY \/ Bernard AUBERTIN \/ C\u00e9sar BALDACCINI \/ Torie BEGG \/ Hagan BENGTSSON \/ Andr\u00e1s BERN\u00c1T \/ Alfonso FRATTEGIANI BIANCHI \/ Bram BOGART \/ Alan CHARLTON \/ Philippe CHITARRINI \/ Christiane CONRAD \/ Szilvia CSEH \/ Christoph DAHLHAUSEN \/ Rudolf de CRIGNIS \/ Alec De BUSSCH\u00c8RE \/ Gioppe DI BELLA \/ Arturo DI MARIA \/ Hadrien DUSSOIX \/ G\u00e1bor ERD\u00c9LYI \/ Helmut FEDERLE \/ Gyula Zolt\u00e1n FELEDY \/ \u00c1rp\u00e1d FORG\u00d3 \/ Rossella FUMASONI \/ Andr\u00e1s G\u00c1L \/ Jakob G\u00c4STEIGER \/ Johannes GECCELLI \/ Alex GERN \/ Ludwig GERSTACKER \/ Johannes GIRARDONI \/ Raimund GIRKE \/ Kuno GONSCHIOR \/ Istv\u00e1n HA\u00c1SZ \/ Marcia HAFIF \/ Simon HANTA\u00cf \/ Herbert HAMAK \/ Tam\u00e1s HENCZE \/ Ren\u00e9 HERAR \/ Manfred J\u00c4GER \/ Jeong Sook AHN \/ Dorothae JOACHIM \/ Zebedee JONES \/ Jus JUCHMANS \/ Katalin K\u00c1LDI \/ Zsigmond K\u00c1ROLYI \/ Gy\u00f6rgy KEPES \/ Imi KNOEBEL \/ Hartwig KOMPA \/ Marie Joe LAFONTAINE \/ Edwina LEAPMAN \/ Ciar\u00e1n LENNON \/ Sol LEWITT \/ Erik LINDMANN \/ Omar LUDO \/ James LUMSDEN \/ Vincent MARRAS \/ Jason MARTIN \/ Pierro MANZONI \/ Umberto MARIANI \/ Joseph MARIONI \/ Ingo MELLER \/ J\u00fcrgen MEYER \/ Vera MOLN\u00c1R \/ Kiminori MIZOBE \/ A. 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Please include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your preferred method of receiving the order: free collection from MODEM during opening hours, or delivery to your specified address following advance payment by bank transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your name, contact details (email address or telephone number) and billing address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title of the catalogue and the number of copies required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MODEM\u2019s current exhibition, The Image of Colour, the Mystery of the Image, presents a comprehensive selection of monochrome paintings from the Antal\u2013Lusztig Collection, one of Hungary\u2019s most significant private art collections. Its owner, Dr P\u00e9ter Antal, began acquiring monochrome paintings in the mid-2000s. 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