Imagination/Idea, 1971
book presentation
Presentation of the book “Imagination/Idea, 1971
The beginning of the Hungarian conceptual art. The collection of László Beke”
Published by the Open Structures Art Society and tranzit. hu.
Date: February 18, Wednesday, 2009 6 p.m.
Location: Fészek Artist’s Club, lecture room
1073 Budapest, Kertész u. 36.
The book will be presented by Ernő Marosi, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
Following that Zsuzsa László (art critic and theorist) will be in conversation with László Beke.
In August 1971 László Beke has sent a call to 28 artists, asking them to send him sheets fitting into A4 document folders, in the case of which the WORK = the DOCUMENTATION OF THE IMAGINATION/IDEA. Beke has arranged and preserved the submitted sheets in folders, which were available for viewing in the last 30 years in the flat of the art historian, and rarely appeared on exhibitions. Today they are important documents of conceptual art.
Supported by: Hungarian Cultural Fund, Deloitte Hungary
The book will be available for 3600 Ft at the presentation.
Later it will be purchasable with an English supplement in the Írók Boltja (Writers’ Bookshop), in the bookshop of Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest and the Ludwig Museum.
