After the Iron Curta

After the Iron Curtain fell, artists in the border state of Hungary covertly exploited the chinks in that armor. Taking note of movements afoot in the West like political Pop and Conceptual art, yet facing censorship from the state, Hungarian artists like Sándor Pinczehelyi deployed creativity as a strategy of resistance. Initially associated with the Pécs Workshop, a locus of geometric abstraction, Pinczehelyi later edged into a kind of coded conceptualism. Evidence of the Pècs group’s Bauhaus inspirations can be seen in works like ‘Imagination’ (1972), shown by @MayorGallery at #ArtBasel2019. #sandorpinczehelyi