CULTURAL INFO Exhibition at MODEM, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, modemart.hu/ The Plain Stories from the past two hundred years of Hungarian fine arts 11 May – 21 September 2014 The motto of the exhibition could be the slogan of a sight-seeing city tour calling locals: be tourist at home! By presenting a unique selection to the spectators, the exhibition shows chapters from the relation of the fine arts and one of the greatest region of the country and the ground of several stereotypes: the Great Hungarian Plain, the location of Debrecen also. The masterpieces, that have never been seen together before, tell stories about the plain painting, faith for tradition and progress. It is considered a rarity that a geographical region is so much accented in a fine arts discourse, even though -or for that reason- it is almost an “anti-landscape” by means of portrayal. The aim of the large-scale exhibition, including more than a hundred artworks, is dual: from one hand, it seeks the spiritual roots of the local culture and the traces of social changes through significant works of Hungarian fine arts, but from the other hand, it questions the spectator’s personal relation to the land. The exhibition invites the visitors for a walk and adventure in the Great Plain as a cultural space. The first section of the exhibition presents the Great Plain as a symbol - the era when the region became the space of the national identity and a desired idyllic world. “The Puszta”, the emblematic work of Károly Markó from 1853 may be seen in this section, along with several significant artwork of the great painting figures from the 19th Century, such as Miklós Barabás, Antal Ligeti, Mór Than, Károly Lotz, Mihály Munkácsy and László Mednyánszky. A seperate room was built for the painting of Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, “Storm on the Hortobágy”, that was inspired by the scientific lecture on Hortobágy, illustrated with the photos of György Haranghy. The visitors may see the painting with the early photo masterpieces exhibited together for the first time in MODEM.
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