Ever since the fine arts came to the attention of the general civilian public, they have been boiling over what would be the truly powerful forms of this public presentation. The history of the Salon, which has been operating in Paris since the 17th century and is held every two or two years, and its Academy, which provides its intellectual and organizational framework, is accompanied by debates and scandals while the number of spectators at the exhibitions reached one million in its best moments. The audience was therefore interested, and still is, interested in being able to review a wide range of living art of that age on the walls of a single exhibition space. This idea motivated the Hungarian Academy of Arts to reintroduce national salons in the Art Gallery, which was transferred to its ownership in 2013. Successive exhibitions undertake a comprehensive presentation of architecture, fine arts, media and photography, and design and applied arts.
With 207 artists, the 2015 National Salon undertakes to review the Hungarian fine art of the last ten years. After the Architectural Salon of the Art Gallery in 2014, with an exhibition of more than twenty thousand spectators, in 2015 with the exhibition of "Here and Now" intends to show the relevant phenomena, characteristic works and lesser-known dimensions of the short period after the turn of the millennium in several areas of our fine arts.
The exhibition featured works by Tamás Gilly: Chest of Tulips and Zsolt Majoros Zsolt: Bark from the K-ARTS Art Collection.
From 25th April 2015 to 19th July 2015 in Budapest, MŰCSARNOK
Curator: Júlia N. Mészáros
Opening: 25th April 2015 - Saturday 15:00
Speaker: György Fekete, the head of the Hungaryan Academy of Arts
The exhibition was opened by dr. Péter Hoppál, State Secretary for Culture and Péter Fertőszögi, art historian
