{"id":25550,"date":"2021-10-18T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punkt.hu\/?p=25550"},"modified":"2021-10-18T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:41:35","slug":"month-of-photography-2021-begins-with-35-exhibitions-selected-photos-from-the-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkt.hu\/en\/2021\/10\/18\/month-of-photography-2021-begins-with-35-exhibitions-selected-photos-from-the-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Month of Photography 2021 begins with 35 exhibitions \u2013 Selected photos from the displays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Organized by the Association of Hungarian Photographers, the Month of Photography offers events across the country again. Numerous photography exhibitions, which will open between 12 October and 30 November, have joined this year\u2019s festival.<\/b><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Along with smaller galleries, the festival features big-name institutions like the Hungarian Museum of Photography, the Hungarian National Museum, the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the Robert Capa Contemporary Photo Centre, the Szab\u00f3 Ervin Metropolitan Library, and Art Market Budapest. In addition to the 21 galleries and institutions in Budapest, there will be plenty to see in the country as well, with Salf\u00f6ld, P\u00e9cs, Cegl\u00e9d, Kecskem\u00e9t and Debrecen all hosting events. Besides the traditional photo exhibitions, the Month of Photography also presents video art, sculpture and book illustrations, and you can even see the next generation at an exhibition of the Grammar School for Fine and Applied Arts\u2019 photography students.<\/p>\n

The festival kicks off on 12 October with an exhibition of the works of Margaret Watkins at Mai Man\u00f3 House,<\/b> a worthy sequel to the Weegee, Nobuyoshi Araki and Robert Doisneau oeuvre exhibitions of the previous Hungarian Months of Photography, organized by Mai Man\u00f3 House and the Association of Hungarian Photographers. Black Light <\/i>brings into relief the salient traits of the Canadian photographer\u2019s art\u2014her rebellious rejection of the traditions of her time, the articulation of eroticism and feminisim\u2014with which Watkins laid the foundations for the new norms of public taste.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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TOBE Gallery <\/b>presents two events while the festival lasts, as do Artphoto Gallery<\/b> and the PaperLab <\/b>(in the bookstore of Mai Man\u00f3 House), while Foton Gallery,<\/b> which opened this year in K\u00e9p\u00edr\u00f3 Street, Budapest, holds three exhibition during the Month of Photography.<\/p>\n

Along with the classical and experimental trends, the exhibitions of the Month of Photography will be marked by a diversity of genres and an exploration of the outer reaches of photography. So while the Hungarian Natural History Museum <\/b>hosts the 29th Nature Photographer of the Year <\/i>exhibition, which features 116 photos and is presented by naturArt \u2013 The Association of Hungarian Nature Photographers, the Hungarian National Museum<\/b> is home to World Press Photo 2021,<\/i> an internationally curated display of 151 images. <\/b>Tickets for the latter event are also valid for Findings,<\/i> the anniversary exhibition of the Szebeni Workshop, and for Digital Storytelling, a film screening and multimedia presentation, expanding the offer of genres during the five weeks of the show.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In a classical vein<\/b><\/p>\n

City of Lions, <\/i>Mikl\u00f3s Guly\u00e1s\u2019s exhibition at Artphoto Gallery,<\/b> presents the spaces of an empty, imaginary Budapest which humans have deserted. The artist is interested in the organic and artificial process of urban development, the lost aura of architectural spaces. Artphoto also has another set of photographs on view: Relics<\/i> comprises the lesser-known pictures that sculptor Gy\u00f6rgy Szab\u00f3 took between 1968 and 1972.<\/p>\n

At Memories Burnt into the Retina<\/i> in M\u00e1csai Istv\u00e1n Gallery, Zsolt B\u00e1tori plays with real and imaginary memories, lives constructed from possible personal stories.<\/p>\n

A 2018 series by photographer and author Alan Huck is on view in PaperLab<\/b> Gallery until 24 October. The artist roamed the streets in the largest city of New Mexico for two months, and the resulting book, I Walk toward the Sun which is Always Going Down <\/i>was published by MACK in 2019.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Photo: Zsolt B\u00e1tori: Untitled, from the series Memories Burnt into the Retina, 2017, gicl\u00e9e print, 40 \u00d7 50 cm<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>

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In an experimental vein<\/b><\/p>\n

Calligraphy,<\/i> at Art9 Gallery,<\/b> is the joint exhibition of Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r, P\u00e9ter Herendi, Imre Dr\u00e9gely and Attila Haid, aka Kvart\u00e9r group. The artists examine the relationship of visual and linguistic signs, the photographic equivalents of handwriting and calligraphy, and it is up to the viewer to decide which type of sign to make the starting point for the deciphering.<\/p>\n

Layers of Reality,<\/i> which shows highlights from Anna P\u00fcschel\u2019s project on synaesthesia, opens in PaperLab<\/b> Gallery on 27 October. The Dutch artist complements her experimental photo works with the scientific approaches of different disciplines, while she offers personal solutions to the debates about synaesthesia.<\/p>\n

Foton Gallery<\/b> hosts the debut exhibition of the new members that the Studio of Young Photographers (FFS) admitted this year. Organized like a traditional salon, featuring the sets of the young experimenting new members, the exhibition also offers additional depth to viewers who are ready to answer the titular questions: Who? With Whom? Where? Why? What did they do?<\/i> From 15 November, FFS\u2019s new artistic project, an exhibition entitled True or False? #Information Overload in the 21st Century<\/i> can be seen at the same venue. <\/i>Coordinated by Tam\u00e1s Don, the project looks at the questions of authenticity, manipulation and objective truth in the global communication space\u2014which includes photography. Foton Gallery\u2019s <\/b>third event for the festival is Interdisciplinary Visions,<\/i> an exhibition of acrylic-tinted chemograms by Zolt\u00e1n Gy\u00f6rgy Fej\u00e9r, who is also known in the Hungarian photography scene as an expert on theory.<\/p>\n

At Dokubrom \u2013 RANDOM Gallery<\/b>, the Random group, who use photography and photo-based media in diverse ways, explore virtual and artificial spaces, natural and urban landscapes, the aesthetic of public spaces and organic sceneries, and the possibilities of transforming them.<\/p>\n

Gaia,<\/i> M\u00e1rk Martink\u00f3 and Marcell Piti\u2019s exhibition at Mymuseum, <\/i><\/b>looks into the interaction between humans and their environment, the evolution of this relationship, using photo and video.<\/p>\n

Viktor V\u00e1radi\u2019s Processing<\/i> is a photographic narrative full of surprises; the exhibition presents what both may or may not be the story of a family. The heterogeneous body of exhibits is arranged on the basis of unconventional principles at TOBE Gallery,<\/b> with the words that outline the events forming an extended haiku, according to Mikl\u00f3s Guly\u00e1s. Tobe also presents the last event of the Month of Photography festival, Soulscapes,<\/i> where Dora Kontha brings to life her sensitive inner sceneries with the means of instant photography.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Outside Budapest<\/b><\/p>\n

Pajta Gal\u00e9ria in Salf\u00f6ld <\/b>celebrates its 30th anniversary with an exhibition that is open until next June. The renewed venue, which presents the contemporary photography collection of founder L\u00e1szl\u00f3 T\u00f6r\u00f6k, who passed away last year, continues to feature the works of artists who have been involved in the gallery's life since its inception.<\/p>\n

Pedestament<\/i> offers testaments of the personal memories of the creator, Zsolt Hamarits, in the Hal\u00e1sz Rezs\u0151 Gallery in P\u00e9cs.<\/b> Trezor, also in P\u00e9cs, introduces Bal\u00e1zs Deim\u2019s experimental works at Space.<\/i><\/p>\n

In Cegl\u00e9d,<\/b> the Kossuth Community Centre\u2019s Chamber Gallery presents a selection from Artist Portraits,<\/i> a series by Istv\u00e1n T\u00f3th, a student of Frigyes Haller, one of the last maestros of classical photography, who passed away five years ago.<\/p>\n

The Borsos Villa in Debrecen <\/b>bears witness to the fruitful collaboration of the Debrecen Photography Club with the M\u00e9liusz Juh\u00e1sz P\u00e9ter Library with Visual Thoughts,<\/i> ideas prompted by, and illustrations made for, well-known literary works.<\/p>\n

The Way Things Stand,<\/i> Zsolt Szam\u00f3dy\u2019s retrospective exhibition opens at the Hungarian Museum of Photography in Kecskem\u00e9t<\/b> on 20 October, and welcomes visitors until early January 2022. The display selects from an oeuvre of three decades, from the Tatab\u00e1nya artist\u2019s early landscapes and still lifes, through his recording of the decay of industrial relics, his photographic etudes on the Old Lake in Tata, to his images of seashores and his photographic reportage on exotic parts of the world.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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There is an online catalogue where you can learn more about the exhibitions and events of the Month of Photography 2021.<\/p>\n

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