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Károly Hopp-Halász began his career in the late 1960s as a member of the Pécs Workshop, a group of young artists that initially gathered around older teacher and painter Ferenc Lantos. For a long time and under Lantos’s influence, the group focused on the reinterpretation of geometric painterly traditions. Hopp-Halász’s practice combined both traditional and contemporary forms of Constructivism. Beside painting which stayed his favoured medium, photography, photo-action and performance, graphic art, object art and installation allowed him to explore recurring motifs and themes.

One of the artist’s essential endeavours was to bring natural and geometric forms closer together, and especially to highlight the correspondences between the symmetric, structural aspects of the human – principally – male body and geometry. Starting with pop-art compositions on early enamel pieces in the end of the 1960s already, Hopp-Halász explored this relation throughout his career until his last body of works juxtaposing photos of male faces, bodies or body parts and painting in a serial, installation or pictorial approach, under the title Open Geometry.

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On the occasion of our upcoming exhibition dedicated to Károly Hopp-Halász, we would like to highlight a gap-filling project we participate in. Hidden Visegrad Heritage: Artists' Studios On-Line is an archive initiated by Fundacja Arton in Warsaw which gathers research partners from the Central and Eastern European Region, among them acb Gallery / acb ResearchLab, Budapest. The artists we focus on in the frame of this program are: Ferenc Ficzek (1947-1987), Lujza Gecser (1943-1988), Károly Hopp-Halász (1946-2016) and Katalin Ladik (1942-).

Forgotten Heritage – European Avant-Garde Art Online A visual database of European avant-garde artworks – a collaboration between the Arton Foundation in Warsaw, Office for Photography Foundation in Zagreb, Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn and Luca School of Arts in Brussels

Call for Papers!

Online Conference Date: 24 October 2024
Submission Deadline: 20 September 2024

"Hidden Heritage: Studios of Artists from the Visegrád Group Countries Online" Conference | Fundacja Arton The premises at 11 Foksal Street in Warsaw are used for cultural purposes thanks to the assistance of the City of Warsaw - Downtown District