The Bozsó Collection’s latest temporary exhibition, titled “Soft Edges, Delicate Geometry,” opens on March 25 and runs through May 3. It offers a glimpse into a private Hungarian contemporary art collection; while some of the pieces have been shown in exhibitions before, the collection itself—or rather, a selection of it— is now being presented to the general public for the first time.
The exhibition space’s rooms present the various levels of the artistic selection step by step, ranging from visually striking painting to pure non-figurative art. While the first part of the exhibition presents painterly worlds constructed from motifs selected from the spectacle of reality with a delicate lyrical sensibility, in the second part the role of form transcends the lyrical transcription of reality; form is elevated, redrawing the image of reality from its inner, essential core. In the third section, the exhibition presents viewers with the various possibilities of refined form creation. Here, the fundamental character of the works on display is no longer defined by a reduced visual world, but rather by a pictorial experience built upon abstract form and the internal laws of color. The three rooms thus become successive elements in a logical sequence, in which the visitor can progress from simple imagery to the exploration of the internal laws of visual creation through soft edges and subtle geometry.
The exhibition, curated by art historian Gábor Kaszás, features works by Imre Bak, Ákos Birkás, Imre Bukta, Pál Deim, István efZámbó, El Kazovszkij, Róza El-Hassan, László Fehér, István Haraszty, Tamás Hencze, Ilona Keserü, Tamás Konok, Ferenc Lantos, Dóra Maurer, Vera Molnár, Tamás Szikora, Attila Szűcs, Miklós Szüts, and Dezső Váli.
The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday, March 25, at 5 p.m. by art historian Péter Fertőszögi, artistic director of BÁV.
