Meghitt idegenek – Kassák Lajos párizsi kiállításai (1960 és 1963)

Abstract

Abstract Győző Vasarhelyi (Victor Vasarely) and Denise Rene staged two exhibitions of Lajos Kassak in the Galerie Denise Rene in Paris, in 1960 and 1963. The organizers included former members of the European School now living in Paris and Kassak's avant-garde artistic connections, including Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Etienne Hajdu, Vera Molnar and her husband Ferenc, Imre Pan, Michel Seuphor, Tristan Tzara. The art historical significance of these exhibitions was that they kept abreast of the contemporary West European and American artistic tendencies: along a linear art historical logic, they created continuity between the abstraction of the first two decades of the 20th century and – with a great leap in time – the geometric abstraction, op art and kinetic trends of the 1950s and 1960s. The basis to do so was, on the one hand, Kassak's oeuvre spanning from 1920 to 1960s, and on the other, the joint presentation of Kassak and Vasarely, as representatives of two periods. Their joint exhibitions and public...