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D\u00f3ra Maurer: As You Like it<\/em><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”p-2-0″]\n

Vintage Gallery, Budapest
\n28 November 2019 \u2013 10 January 2020<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-20l-1000″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-3-4-t” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22967″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

Maurer D\u00f3ra: Quod Libet 64,<\/em> (2008) 2015, acrylic on canvas and wood, 28\u00d7142 cm, MD520 | Quod Libet 65,<\/em> 2017, acrylic on canvas and wood, 48\u00d7148 cm, MD542 \u00a9 Photos: Ferenc Eln<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”text-20r” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

The exhibition at Vintage Gallery presents a selection of D\u00f3ra Maurer\u2019s works of recent years. The title of the exhibition refers to one of the most important series of the artist\u2019s oeuvre, the Quod libet pictures.<\/em> From a historical perspective, the expression can relate to a musical composition that combines several different melodies in counterpoint, often in a playful manner, or it can also be a familiar type of Baroque trompe l\u2019oeil still life, in which the illusory images of quotidian objects left or forgotten alongside each other emerge. While Maurer\u2019s artworks (and series) are often built upon phrases that complement or counterpoint each other, and in this way present polyphonic musical structures; and illusory foreshortenings, projections and anamorphoses often recur in the artist\u2019s compositions; nevertheless, the use of the expression Quod libet<\/em> cannot be viewed as a specific art historical reference. The title relates much more to a creative method and artistic approach, characterised by an experimental spirit paired with playfulness. Maurer\u2019s artworks \u2013 created in various media \u2013 are based on defined systems and structures, which the artist shifts and slides apart, step by step, and in this way creates new forms and combinations of colour. The recurring motifs and objects of Maurer\u2019s paintings are illusorily inclined planes and fields of colour, intersecting each other, which over the years have increasingly diverged from the system linked to compositions of the artist from the 1970s, including her Quantity Boards, Displacements,<\/em> and her Quasi Images<\/em> building upon them: they playfully stretch out, hover, bend onto and into each other, and sometimes follow each other in a sequence of phases of motion. The Quod libet pictures<\/em> are perspectivally foreshortened, while the Overlappings<\/em> compositions cover and overlay each other as imaginary shell-like structures, and the motifs of the IXEK series, crossing and intercepting each other, create new colour combinations and constellations. Maurer has aptly referred to her latter compositions, more poetic than all that came before, as a \u201cform gymnastics\u201d. The formations hovering in imaginary space are bending onto each other, and are often in a \u201creciprocal\u201d relationship. We might even refer to as \u201cfilm colors\u201d (quoting Josef Albers\u2019 volume on colour theory, Interaction of Colour,<\/em> translated into Hungarian by none other than D\u00f3ra Maurer). The imaginary movements of these forms call into being the intensive vibration of the complementary colours and the cold-warm contrasts, or their harmony filled with melancholy. Maurer\u2019s art can be described as the free play of the changing constellations of moving planes \u2013 the entirety of her life oeuvre is the embodiment of a consistently unfurled conceptual programme, which, contrary to appearances, takes as its primary point of departure not artistic or mathematical, but rather epistemological questions. In the insightful words of Dieter Honisch, what interests D\u00f3ra Maurer \u201cis not art, but reality and the perpetually changing manifestation of reality.\u201d The exhibition at Vintage Gallery presents new constellations of \u201cthe perpetually changing manifestations of reality.\u201d According to the principle of \u201cas you like it\u201d, it is as if the configurations writing onto and into each other, similarly to musical scores, would \u201cplay\u201d before our eyes the process of the birth of forms, and thus giving dynamic, yet motionless images of the joy of creation.<\/p>\n

D\u00f3ra Maurer belongs to the key figures of Hungarian art history, who from 1968 as a dual citizen, commuted between Vienna and Budapest, fostering the development of the international network of relations of the Hungarian neo-avantgarde. Alongside her activity as an organiser in the art scene, her engagement in art pedagogy was also of epochal significance, with the Creativity Exercises that she co-led in the 1970s with Mikl\u00f3s Erd\u00e9ly forming the thinking of a new generation of artists, while after 1990 she nurtured several new generations of artists as a professor of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. From the 1970s, she has regularly shown in Austria and Germany, and today she can be considered practically the most well-known Hungarian visual artist on an international scale, who has become a part of the global art historical canon. Recently, Maurer\u2019s works have been acquired by such defining public collections as the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Her works at the Istanbul Biennial in 2011 generated significant international attention. In recent years, Maurer has taken part in such large-scale group exhibitions as in the Centre Pompidou (Promises of the Past,<\/em> 2011), The Art Institute of Chicago (Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964\u20131977,<\/em> 2011; Photography Is,<\/em> 2014), MoMA (Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1960\u20131980,<\/em> 2015), Whitechapel Gallery (Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915\u20132015,<\/em> 2015) and the Tate Modern (Performing for the Camera,<\/em> 2016). White Cube in London also presented her work in two solo exhibitions (6 out of 5,<\/em> White Cube Mason\u2019s Yard, 2016; D\u00f3ra Maurer,<\/em> White Cube Bermondsey, 2019), and furthermore represents her officially from 2019, alongside Vintage Gallery in Budapest. D\u00f3ra Maurer\u2019s retrospective exhibition was opened this year at the Tate Modern, which can be considered a milestone \u2013 not only for the life oeuvre of the artist, but more generally also for the international reception of Hungarian art.<\/p>\n

D\u00e1vid Feh\u00e9r<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22966″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-20r-1000″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22968″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-20l-1000″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22970″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

Maurer D\u00f3ra: Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 32\u00d750 cm | Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 32\u00d750 cm | Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 32\u00d750 cm<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-5-20″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”23000″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

Maurer D\u00f3ra: Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 50\u00d732 cm | Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 50\u00d732 cm<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22969″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-5-20″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-0-6″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22972″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

Maurer D\u00f3ra: Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, graphite and chalk on paper, 50\u00d732 cm | Overlappings,<\/em> 2006, acrylic on canvas and wood, 50\u00d732 cm<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” class=”full-5-20″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”22973″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%” el_class=”full-img”][vc_column_text]\n

Maurer D\u00f3ra: IXEK 21,<\/em> 2017, acrylic on canvas and wood, 125\u00d7146 cm, MD533<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”center” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” el_class=”p-3-4″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”]

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