Oeuvre Exhibition of Victor Vasarely to Open in Seoul

MTI-Hungary Today 2023.12.23.

A retrospective exhibition of Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely’s (1906-1997) life’s work will be on display at the Seoul Arts Center until mid-April, marking the 33rd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Hungary.

The exhibition, entitled Victor Vasarely: The Responsive Eye, is a selection of masterpieces from the Vasarely Museum Budapest, a member institution of the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, and will provide a glimpse of Vasarely’s oeuvre for the South Korean public through almost 200 works. The exhibition, open until mid-April, presents Vasarely’s career chronologically, organized around thematic groups and series, with attention also paid to the specific technical processes of each period.

Photo: Facebook/Vasarely Múzeum Budapest

An exhibition of Vasarely’s works was held 33 years ago in 1990, at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, South Korea, the director general of the Museum of Fine Arts was quoted as saying. According to László Baán, this retrospective exhibition is a more comprehensive and representative presentation of Vasarely’s art than ever before.

We hope that Victor Vasarely, who is considered by both nations, Hungary and France, to be ‘their own son,’ will also find appreciative viewers in South Korea who understand and admire his art,”

the director general stressed.

Photo: Facebook/Vasarely Múzeum Budapest

The Vasarely Museum in Budapest, opened in 1987, is the most comprehensive collection of Vasarely’s works in the world and was established to preserve and display the master’s generous donations. In addition to the world-renowned op art works, the Budapest collection also includes unique rarities not seen elsewhere, such as figurative compositions that showcase the virtuoso drawing skills of the fledgling artist, or experimental graphic works that project the art of optics thirty years into the future.

Photo: Facebook/Vasarely Múzeum Budapest

Fact

In recent years, the Museum of Fine Arts has organized solo exhibitions of the Budapest museum’s works of art and important works of Hungarian fine art in several major foreign museums and exhibition venues. The Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Kunstforum Wien (Vienna), the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the Palazzo Reale in Milan, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid have all been able to showcase Hungarian masterpieces to hundreds of thousands of visitors. The Hungarian museum’s exhibitions have also been a great success in Argentina, Japan, and China.

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Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Vasarely Múzeum Budapest