The exhibition focuses on a little-known yet significant aspect of György Kurtág’s oeuvre: the composer’s network of relationships with the visual arts and the artistic milieu that emerged from it.
The exhibition presents Kurtág’s personal and intellectual connections with contemporary artists, teachers, friends and students, which also appear in correspondence, dedications, homages and collaborative works. The works on display are linked by the continuous crossing of genre, media and cultural-political boundaries; their guiding motif is freedom.
Kurtág’s activity as a draftsman plays a prominent role in the exhibition. His abstract gestural drawings were not created with a representational intention but as traces of emotions, bodily movements and momentary states. The selection, spanning from the 1950s to the present day, includes works by Judit Reigl, Endre Bálint, Júlia Vajda, János Kass, Sári Gerlóczy, Dezső Tandori, Georgios Tzortzoglou and Judit Kurtág. These works offer insight into a creative environment in which music, visual art, literature and performative gesture are closely intertwined.