Reprints and Objects, 1973–2007

The exhibition gives a taste of more than 30 years of artwork. In the early 1970s, Sándor Pinczehelyi used a sickle, hammer, and star to create artistic happenings and documented them in photographs. Some of them became iconic works of art in Hungary and Eastern Europe at the time. These works of art from thirty years ago are now being reissued as large-scale prints on canvas. Although Sándor Pinczehelyi is primarily known as a painter and printmaker, this exhibition also presents several of his works, which take a new approach to the motifs that characterize his paintings. Pinczehelyi's work is not without political overtones. The works can therefore evoke conflicting emotions in the viewer: wonder, appreciation, doubt, incomprehension, or even rejection. The works, now widely published internationally, have never before been exhibited together and in such a context.