3 in 1 exhibition

3 in 1 exhibition in Hungarian National Museum

‘Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition’ accompanied with the exhibition of ‘The World of Fashion in Pictures – Yesterday & Today’ and with a presentation about the history of photography
Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition, which is organized for the 28th time in Hungary, presents Hungarian press photos of 2009. The pictures represent various topics from several fields, such as arts, sports, or nature. Visitors can experience again the most exciting, dramatic, or joyful moments of the last year via the professional photos. Not only Hungarian internal affairs are displayed in the exhibition, such as locations of Roma-murders, verdict in the case of Olaszliszka, or inauguration of the new Prime Minister, but also the most significant international affairs are represented, for example Felipe Massa’s grave accident and everyday life in the war-stricken territories of Afghanistan. Some less serious topics include, for example, the most significant contemporary literary figures of Hungary, the 125-years-old Opera House, and the 120-years-old Hungarian National Circus.

Maybe we are not all familiar with the fact, that Hungary has provided the world with not only famous photographers but with genius and talented fashion photographers as well, whose works are displayed along with the aforementioned exhibition. The second photo-exhibition in the museum, which is entitled ‘The World of Fashion in Pictures – Yesterday & Today’ shows gorgeous fashion photos of the past century and nowadays as well. Visitors can have an insight both into the world of fashion and into the history of photography via the exhibition.

Finally, the exhibitions are completed with a thorough exposure on the history and the development of the different technologies in photography.


The exhibition is open till April 25th.

Innovative open-air exhibition downstairs at Gödör

Enormous steam iron producing real steam and a huge plastic leg in nylon stockings among other grotesque objects at Erzsébet tér


Passersby can attend to a unique exhibition every day from March 8 to April 8 when they are walking down- or upstairs at Gödör Klub, Erzsébet tér. Not only is the location unusual for an exhibition, but its subject as well: several tools and equipments which have facilitated women’s life are displayed on the stairs to celebrate women and their role.


The exhibition was created to call attention to ladies and their status as a woman, as a wife and a mother. Although I am aware of the fact, that household gadgets play an important role in our life and enhance our everyday duties significantly, I cannot relate a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine to women’s role in the society and their celebration. So, why do huge household machines and cosmetic articles represent women and their roles?


I agree that the huge leg or the giant lipstick is a shockingly rare spectacle in the heart of the capital. Still, I think that the exhibition fails to transmit the creators’ original idea about showing women’s role and mission in the 20th and 21st centuries.


The exhibition is a surprising view but nothing else.

Fortune's Fools

“Fortune’s Fools” (Sors Bolondjai)

Comedy in two parts in Madách Theatre, Budapest

4 people, 2 ladies and 2 gentlemen, 2 couples- it does not matter how we identify the main characters of Stroppel’s comedy. As humans, they live, love and sometimes, they even make mistakes. The play introduces the lives of Chuck and Gail, who are preparing to marry, and Jay and Bonnie, two seemingly hyper-independent characters, who are still unmarried, but their friends try their best to put them in touch with each other.

Spectators can have an inner view into the characters’ lives; they can observe the development of Chuck's and Gail’s relationship, their matrimonial conflicts after getting married. The other two characters’ personalities are also scrutinized with some critical aspect and sarcasm. The two couples’ fates are compared and contrasted by Stroppel in a wonderfully humorous and ironical way, ensuring viewers a fantastic entertainment.

In the end of the comedy, the characters are forced to realize that they have to accommodate to each in order to survive life and marriage. They also acknowledge that humor is the essence of life.

Sweet, sugar!, candy

Hungary’s first design confectionary in Újpest

Sugar! shop combines fashion and art with cakes and sweeties; to visit the amazing store is an absolute must for people who are crazy for both candies and design. Although the idea is unique in Hungary, fashion and design candy stores are quite widespread in England, France, or in the U.S, where Horváth Eszter, former stylist, the owner of the shop travels often to collect more ideas and experiences to attract customers to her cute and sweet store.

Originally, she had been working as a stylist, for years, but she could not deny her family’s past and her talent in the art of confectionary; she decided to mix her experiences and ideas from both fields: Sugar! shop was born in 2004.

Sugar! shop’s artists have no fear of crazy ideas, they are able to use their imagination and experiences to create any kind of cake or candy, such as birthday cake imitating Dior high-hilled shoes or a Louis Vuitton bag for fashion addicts.

They either await their guests in Újpest to spend some splendid hours between the bombastic candies and forget about the worries of their everyday lives, or receive their orders for parties, birthdays or any special events.

For more information and sweetness please visit their website.

Glenn Brown's exhibition in Budapest

"art as language"

Contemporary British painter's thorough exhibition in Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Glenn Brown is a contemporary British painter whose originality, in a paradox way, includes questioning the existence of originality. He often parodies and reproduces well-known and unknown artists' work of arts by comparing and contrasting different eras and techniques in a wonderfully ironical way. According to Brown, there is no 'originality' in painting; all works are related to each other as parts of the artistic canon. Due to his special approach to the interdepencies, he was once sued by the Dalí Foundation, because he copied and reworked some of Dalí's paintings among others.
The British artist wants to emphasize the interrelations among the different elements of pop culture while mixing various techniques and reproducing already existing paintings.

The exhibition is open till April 11 in Ludwig Museum, Budapest.

For further details please visit the museum's website.

Here, you will find some paintings of Brown as an appetizer.

Introduction

Welcome Dear Followers,
I am going to inform you week by week about ANYTHING interesting which can be connected to Budapest and to the cultural life of the city.
If you are interested in spending your free time in Budapest, you will find some pieces of useful information each week, concerning theatre, museum, architecture, music, etc.
EVERYTHING which is hot in the city will be posted here and you are kindly invited to comment on the entries, if you feel like sharing what you have seen, lived or felt in Budapest.