ANDRÁS HALÁSZ

As a student András Halász called together several avant-garde artists to take a stand against the enforced communism. They opposed the artistic limitations that the regime had thrust upon them. Halász displayed his work in private houses, community centres and alternative clubs. He experimented with different art forms such as photograms, conceptual work and performances. In 1978 he left Hungary and from then on worked frequently both in Paris and New York, thus escaping the restriction of artistic activities in his homeland. Since 1990, the artist has been able to visit his native country legally and since 2005 has been living once again in Budapest, where he teaches at the University of Fine Arts.

1972-1976 Hungarian College of Fine Arts, Budapest, Painting and Graphics (Masters: Szilárd Iván, Károly Raszler)

1972 Study trip to Paris, France 1976 He's an organizer and participant in a group of artist formed at the college, which presented themselves in the Rose Espresso with fluxus-like actions, called: Rose group (Rózsa csoport)

1979 teaching art at Attila József Culture House in Budapest

1975-1979 has regularly participated in various progressive exhibitons and actions 1979 He emigrated, settling first in Paris and then in New York

1982-1984 P. S. 1, a two-year scholarship to New York, which provided him with a studio and an exhibition opportunity

1983-1987 he was regularly featured in East Village galleries

1990 he has been exhibiting regulary in Hungary. Already at the beginning of his career, ha made it clear that he wanted to make art that's able to express thoughts in such a way that the intellectual, intellectual content in the image not only appears as an illustration, but becomes part of the form of the work. This conscious art program brings together his work created in otherwise diverse materials and genres - painting, graphics, environment, action, photography and texts. In addition to flux-like actions, environments, textual conceptual works, he implemented this program most successfully in the photogram genre in the 1970s. He displayed logical, philosophical connections and paradoxes in these photograms, which cannot be verified in a verbal-logical way, but can be seen on the picture.

The part is larger than the whole, the whole, the deficit seems to be surplus, the mirror and the mirror are interchanged. At the same time, those sometimes large-scale photograms, renewing the traditional language of the photogram, also have picturesque-aesthetic value. (Interest, 1978; Pre-Religious Status, 1979). Likewise his analysis of images of famous masterpieces also resulted in new, surprising image qualities, during which he researched visual qualities and thought contents not previously discovered in images with the means of drawing, photography, photogram and the method of copying, further copying and variation (Kandinsky-painting, Disaster, 1977).

In New York painting has become his main genre, but philosophical-conceptual thinking is still present in his paintings. In his figural images painted with black paint of different materials on a black background, the subjects depicted appear only in certain light, which are thus expressive pictorial formulations of the "there is, but it doesn't appear" phenomenon of another paradox displayed in photograms. (Black Porn, 1983; Pope John Paul II, 1984). In the early 1990s, gambling was a defining theme in several of his works as a concrete experience and as a world model or metaphor of destiny. His 38-piece computer-graphic series with a schematic representation of the roulette ball and its rotation is not a representation of the game of roulette, but a representation of the mathematical-physical-philosophical relationship inherent in gambling (Atlantic City, 1992). The theme of the game appears in a completely different form on his billiard paintings. Here he realized a new pictorial concept in which reality and its representation could hardly be separated. A series of pictures painted on a green billiard table-sized billiard table seems to be an imprint of a real billiard game of the present time or an expressive pictorial representation of the game (Chelsea Billiard, 1993).

In his oil paintings painted in the second half of the 90s, we can see within a picture the reality, the place where he lives and works - studio image - and the imaginary world, what he's thinking about - the representation of alchemical symbols -; the coexistence and opposition of the two worlds is both the subject and the form of the image (Children of Mercury, 1995).

Artworks in Public Collections

Kiscell Museum, Budapest King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst,Gent Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Modern Art Collection, Gallery of Szombathely, Szombathely Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Solo Exhibitions

2019 New York is my Vietnam, Rugógyár Gallery, Budapest 2017 Cave, Horizont Gallery, Budapest 2013 Religion 1979, Neon Gallery, Budapest 2013 Academic Modells(continued), FUGA, Budapest 2012 Models and Students, MKE, Barcsay Hall, Budapest 2010 King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár 2009 Budapest - City of Spas, N&n Gallery, Budapest 2007 St.art Gallery, Budapest 2006 St.art Gallery, Budapest 2006 Blanket-installation, MKE, Parthenon Frieze Hall of Mulberry Garden, Budapest 2003 Picturesque Perspective IV, St.art Gallery, Budapest 2000 Greely Square Gallery, New York 1998 Barboza Studio, New York, Kiscell Museum, Budapest 1996 Pécs Gallery, Pécs 1995 Ernst Museum, Budapest (coll.) 1993 Budapest Gallery Lajos street, Budapest, Janos Gat Gallery, New York 1992 Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest 1990 Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, LIGET Gallery, Budapest 1983-1984 P. S. 1, New York

1979 Bercsényi College [with Zsigmond Károlyi ], Religion (exhibiton and action in three parts), Flat of Simon, Budapest, Cultural Center, Budaörs, Young Artist Club (FMK), Budapest 1978 Youth and Pioneer House, Székesfehérvár

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 'The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future', S.M.A.K., Gent https://smak.be/en/exhibition/15421 2018 25 Years 50 Artists 99 Artworks, MANK, Szentendre 2018 Paperspace, Horizont Gallery, Budapest 2018 Poemimplications. Artist for poems of Gábor Gyukics. Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest 2016 'Fresh?' - Zsombor Barakonyi, András Halász, György Jovián, Endre Lábass, István Nyári, István Orosz, Pika, Judit Rabóczky, Georgios Tzortzoglou, Gusztáv Ütő-, Kunsthalle, Budapest http://mucsarnok.hu/kiallitasok/kiallitasok.php?mid=J5GuGam1JYZoaa 2015 March! 2015, Zsuzsa Bene - András Halász - Mihály Szilágyi, FUGA, Budapest 2014 NEO ROSE V., Subchapters from the first chapter of Hungarian conceptual art., Ludwig Museum, Budapest https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/hir/neo-rose-v-alfejezetek-magyar-konceptualis-muveszet-elso-fejezetebol 2012 Three Times Two, Károly Klimó , Levente Baranyai, Lóránt Méhes, Donáta Gajzágó, András Halász, Emese Fodor, Klauzál 13 Galéria, Budapest 2011 'Joy and Disaster', S.M.A.K., Gent https://smak.be/en/exhibition/8466 http://tranzitblog.hu/prospect_80_1_joy_and_disaster/ 2010 Paralell II., - Marlene Dumas, Eszter Csurka, Gábor Király, Imre Bukta, Tamás Szikora, András Halász, Léna&Roselli Gallery, Budapest 2008 Selection, Our Classic Contemporaries - András Halász, Zsigmond Károlyi , Gyula Konkoly , St.art Gallery, Budapest 2007 Three pipers, András Halász, Zsigmond Károlyi, Gyula Konkoly, , St.art Gallery, Budapest 2006 Over Time - The reinterpreted painting tradition, Sensaria Group, Kunsthalle Szombathely, Szombathely 2000 Bronx River Restoration Art, New York, Open Studios, D.U.M.B.O., New York 1998 The Rose-Group, Ernst Museum, Budapest 1987 Walter Thorne, New York 1985 La Gallery en el Bohio, New York 1983 Arts and Commerce, New York 1980 6 HongaARSE Kunstenaars, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent 1977 Are you drawing?, Young Artist Club (FMK), Budapest, Exhibiton and Ball, Ganz Mávag House of Culture, Budapest 1976 Action series in Rose Espresso; International Drawing Triennial, Wrocław, International Graphic Biennial, Krakow 1975 Comic Book, Young Artist Club (FMK), Budapest, Montage, Young Artist Club (FMK), Budapest

Publications and studies

András Halász: Summoning self-awarenes, Mozgó Világ, 1980/February., p.88. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/MozgoVilag_1980_1/?pg=205&layout=s András Halász: Mediation in glass (about Miklós Erdély), Magyar Műhely, 1983.07.15., XXI.évf.67.sz., p.41. András Halász: New York is My Vietnam (autobiographical novel, manuscript, 1986) András Halász: Day patrol. American Impressionism and Realism, Painting of modern life, 1885-1916, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Balkon, 1994/12., p. 20-22. András Halász: Genesis of seven paintings, Balkon, 1995/10-11., p. 18-20. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/Balkon_1995/?query=balkon%201995&pg=377&layout=s

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András Halász: Notes on American Painting in the 80s*, Part I.,Balkon, 2007/02., p.8-19. ∗ The study is an abbreviated and edited version of the dissertation for the DLA degree http://www.balkon.hu/archiv/2007/2007_2/2halasz.html

Irodalom

Hajdu I.: Megfigyelés alatt, Mozgó Világ, 1980/2., p. 90, 93. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/MozgoVilag_1980_1/?pg=207&layout=s Simon Zs.: Kényszerteória, Mozgó Világ, 1980/6., p. 82-92. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/MozgoVilag_1980_1/?pg=679&layout=s Schwartz, M.: ~ (kat. bev., New York, 1991) Tolvaly E.: Emlék. Halász András kiállításáról, Új Művészet, 1991/5., p. 51. Fischer Zs.: Research Lab - Chelsea Billiard, Új Művészet, 1993/8. Molnár M.: A játékos, Új Művészet, 1993/8. Tolvaly E.: A be sem látható, mint alternatív panel, Balkon, 1995.10.01./10-11., p. 16- https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/Balkon_1995/?pg=375&layout=s Berecz Á.: Helykeresés - Budapest, Kaposvár, New York: ~ kiállítása az Ernst Múzeumban, Új Művészet, 1996/4. Simon Zs.: ~ (monogr.), Műcsarnok, Budapest, 1997 Klimó K.: Hol vannak a régi szép idők? Halász mű a Rózsa presszó kiállításon. Balkon, 1999/3-4., március-április, p. 24-25. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/Balkon_1999/?pg=71&layout=s Forián Szabó N.: Április 4-ről szóljon az ének - Halász András kiállítása. Balkon, 2006/ 13. évf. 4.sz., p.22-23. https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/Balkon_2006/?pg=165&layout=s Hajdu I.: Kiállítás - Jelentésvágy - Czimra Gyula; Halász András. Magyar Narancs, 2010/18.(05.06.) https://magyarnarancs.hu/zene2/kiallitas_-_jelentesvagy_-_czimra_gyula_halasz_andras-73706 Erre a kiállításra még az amerikai nagykövet is kíváncsi volt. Librarius, 2016. 05. 14. https://librarius.hu/2016/05/14/erre-a-kiallitasra-meg-az-amerikai-magyar-nagykovet-is-kivancsi-volt/ Kolle, G.: Csendes lélekbarangolás, Kortárs művészeti kérdések, 2017. https://kortars-muveszeti-kerdesek.webnode.hu/halasz-andras/ Aki a kaposvári katonaélményeiből csinált karriert New York-ban - Halász András. New York is my Vietnám és egyéb történetek. Fidelio, 2019. 02. 22. https://fidelio.hu/vizual/aki-a-kaposvari-katonaelmenyeibol-csinalt-karriert-new-yorkban-halasz-andras--143104.html Van Dyck-tól az undergroundig - 15 kiállítást ajánlunk a fővárosban. Műtárgy, 2019.02.17. https://www.mutargy.com/hirek/van-dycktol-az-undergroundig-15-kiallitast-ajanlunk-a-fovarosban Szilágyi R.T.: Ezt nézd! - Miskolc, Budapest, Debrecen és Paks. Artmagazin online. in: Ezt nézd! EXTRA, 2019. 03. 18. https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/ajanljuk/ea26253345f20cb577951f250403f1cf Galériák Budapesten: 8+1 új helyszín, ahová el kell jutnod a Budapest Art Week alatt. 2020.03.04. https://www.bpartweek.hu/hu/magazin/galeriak-budapesten-8-1-uj-helyszin-ahova-el-kell-jutnod-a-budapest-art-week-alatt/

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