EXHIBITION AND BOOKLET DESIGN
Béla Uitz and the Russian Icon / Avant-garde | Uitz Béla és az orosz ikon /avantgárd
at Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary | 2024
Béla Uitz was a leading artist of modern Hungarian painting, co-editor of the journal Ma (Today) and brother-in-law of Lajos Kassák. This exhibition of the Kassák Museum explored the influences and inspirations that led to Uitz’s monumental cycle of paintings known as the Icon Analyses. In 1919 Uitz exiled with the Hungarian Activist group to Vienna, where he joined Kassák’s circle and became acquainted with new trends in international avant-garde art. In the spring of 1921, he travelled to Moscow, where he was fascinated by both contemporary Russian Constructivist art and Orthodox churches, especially the art of the Icon.
The design of the exhibition was both a reference to the avant-garde typographic tradition and a homage to Uitz's Icon Analyses series.
curators: Gergely Barki, Gabriella Sah & Merse Pál Szeredi
texts: Éva Bajkay, Gergely Barki & Gabriella Sah
editor: Merse Pál Szeredi
graphic design: Tímea Andorka
fonts: Stolzl Display by Inhouse Type & Typold Condensed by The Northern Block
ISBN 978-963-658-008-7
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