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Iparterv II. exhibition is a 1969 Hungarian vintage poster designed by Gyorgy Kemeny
The Iparterv group was a Hungarian neo-avant-garde visual arts group operating between 1968 and 1969, with its headquarters in Budapest. Neo-avant-garde art first appeared in Hungary in the framework of the occasional events of the 11 young Hungarian artists.
The Iparterv exhibitions are not without precedent. May 1966: in the Studio ’66, the young avant-garde artists, later exhibiting artists of the Iparterv, Imre Bak, András Baranyay, Ilona Keserü, László Lakner, János Major, Sándor Molnár and Ludmil Siskov, exhibited in a separate room together with others. June 1966: Sándor Molnár’s informel paintings were exhibited in the Mednyánszky room. On December 22, 1966, an exhibition was organized by Imre Bak, Krisztián Frey, Tamás Hencze, Endre Hortobágyi, Sándor Molnár, István Nádler, Endre Tót, mostly members of the Zuglói Circle, which was led by Géza Perneczky.
February 1968: an old and new avant-garde exhibition was organized in the Vásárhelyi Pál Dormitory: Imre Bak, Tibor Csiky, Tihamér Gyarmathy, Tamás Hencze, Dezső Korniss, Endre Tót, Béla Veszelszky.
April 1968: Péter Sinkovits organized a pop art exhibition of the works of László Lakner, János Major, Dóra Maurer, Gábor Pásztor in the dormitory of the Technical University, where in May 1968 Sinkovits presented the gray written pictures of Krisztián Frey.
Iparterv I. (opening: December 12, 1968)
December 1968: the recently graduated art historian, Péter Sinkovits, organized an exhibition of the works of 11 young neo-avant-garde artists in the auditorium of the IPARTERV office building at 10 Deák Ferenc Street in the city center. This was the Iparterv I. exhibition, opened on December 12, 1968 by the art historian János Tölgyesi. From May to June 1969, Péter Sinkovits organized an exhibition of the group members every two weeks in the KISZ club of the Central Institute of Physics, on Budafoki Street. Artists belonging to the most diverse stylistic trends exhibited here, some of whom were in the process of changing their style.
Ilona Keserü's gesture painting most closely referred to the European School, Krisztián Frey and Endre Tót worked in the direction of Western European gesture painting and American abstract expressionism. Sándor Molnár presented monochrome paintings. Imre Bak and István Nádler represented the new geometric abstraction at the exhibition. Tamás Hencze presented paintings approaching op-art, László Lakner and Gyula Konkoly presented paintings approaching pop-art.
Iparterv II. (opening: 24 October 1969)
The temporary exhibitions organized for the members of the group prepared the Iparterv II. exhibition, at which four more participants joined the group, András Baranyay and János Major with graphics, László Méhes with his hyperrealist painting Weekday, and the exhibition series was closed with a happening by Tamás Szentjóby. The individual exhibitions were opened by Lajos Németh, Éva Körner and Géza Perneczky on October 24, 1969. The exhibition was only on view for a few days because the Fine and Applied Arts Lectorate, which was then a censorship office, banned it.
The exhibiting artists of the Iparterv:
Imre Bak (Iparterv I-II.)
András Baranyai (Iparterv II.)
Miklós Erdély (listed in the catalogue)
Krisztián Frey (Iparterv I-II.)
Tamás Hencze (Iparterv I-II.)
György Jovánovics (Iparterv I-II.)
Ilona Keserü (Iparterv I-II.)
Gyula Konkoly (Iparterv I-II.)
László Lakner (Iparterv I-II.)
János Major (Iparterv II.)
László Méhes (Iparterv II.)
István Nádler (Iparterv I-II.)
Attila Pálfalusi (listed in the catalogue)
Lumill Siskov (Iparterv I-II.)
Tamás Szentjóby (Iparterv II.)
Endre Tót (Iparterv I-II.)
The Dokumentum 69-70 catalogue, which is related to the Iparterv, omitted works by Tamás Szentjóby and Sándor Molnár, but included works by Miklós Erdély and Attila Pálfalusi. The title of the publication Dokumentum is a direct reference to the “Documenta” in Kassel. (source: wikipedia.org)
