DEZSŐ KORNISS EXHIBITION
Cricketdance on the Edge of Existence | Tücsöktánc a lét határán
at Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary
at Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary
10 May – 18 July 2017
Dezső Korniss went back to Hungarian folk art and integrated it with the language of Avant-garde – thus citing the work of Béla Bartók – with the aim of creating a modern Hungarian art. After 1945 Korniss painted several playful surrealist compositions, some of which evoke dramatic associations. One of these is The Cricket Wedding, an allusion to a children’s song, also adapted by Béla Bartók, the protagonists of which are beetles and other animals with human characteristics. But the joyful dance of the surrealistically enlarged figures of this micro-world is interfused by a disturbing sensation of existence in an upside down universe.
curator: Emőke Bodonyi
assistant curator: Fruzsina Kigyós
leading coordinator: Gabriella Gergely
graphic design and typography: Tímea Andorka
photos: Balázs Deim, Tímea Andorka
marketing and communication: Tímea Andorka, Helga Philipp, Zsuzsa Rappai, Örs Szörényi, Tamás Torma
proofreading: Bori Zelei
installation: Tibor Flóris, Robin Kecskés, Szilárd Masika & Platinum GL
restorers: Krisztina Lővei, Katalin Lukács, László Schrett
collection Manager: Zoltán Herczeg