It is a well-known phenomenon, when a book, magazine etc. spends a long time in a shop-window; its cover gets faded, and slowly converges into a blue-ish entropy. This is the process of the overdevelopment, in which the picture exceeds the zenith of its career, the point, where – in the moment of the development or appearance – the outlines are sharp, the contrasts are strong, the colors are firm. A few years before, ...

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With the Essl Art Award for Central and Eastern Europe, which is this year being awarded for the fourth time, the Essls as a collector couple have established a sustainable project for the promotion of young art students from central and south- eastern Europe. The comprehensive group exhibition in the Essl Museum shows 18 current positions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and ...

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September 16, 2011

Helyiérték – Váltófutás

Local Value - Relay Race There is a lot of talk about the crisis of values recently. The many problems and issues we face before us - whether social, economic, political, cultural, environmental or identity, that touch all of mankind or just the quality of our everyday relationships - may perhaps be traced back to a lack of direction: we can not find the our own place, or misplace things, thus our value system is ...

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The ESSL ART AWARD is dedicated to the discovery and support of young creative talents in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia. The ESSL ART AWARD aims at supporting artists who are still in training. Collaboration with the art academies is a central point in this endeavour, as they are the nucleus and well-established centres for the training of future ...

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