Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography at Alma Gallery, May 10 – June 18, 2016

Impact: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography highlights László Moholy-Nagy’s experimental drive and his tendency toward abstraction. It juxtaposes his photograms and photo-collages with the work of twenty other artists, past and present, who share these impulses. Moholy-Nagy’s fascination with new media is evident in his remarkable color film, “Light Machine” (1941), and it is echoed in Theodor Kraynik’s “Video Luminar” (1967), a pioneering video that will premier at Alma Gallery.

László Moholy-Nagy, Nude Negative, 1920, print 1973. Silver gelatin print. Hungarian Museum of Photography

László Moholy-Nagy, Nude Positive, 1920, print 1973. Silver gelatin print. Hungarian Museum of Photography

Moholy-Nagy Photogram (self portrait) hi res

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1926. Silver gelatin print, 1973

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (Self and Lucia), modern silver gelatin copy print of a lost photogram of 1926, made from a vintage glass copy negative (Hattula Moholy-Nagy). From the portfolio László Moholy-Nagy (Munich and Milan, Heiner Friedrich and Editioni O), 1973

Moholy-Nagy Photogram circles and rectangles hi res

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled. Photogram. n.d. (1920s), modern silver gelatin copy print, 1973

Ágnes Eperjesi, Giant Secondary Density [Green], 2009. Color photogram. Hungarian Museum of Photography

Balázs Sprenc, Memories of a Surgery, 2015 Unique silver gelatin chemigram Courtesy Alma and the artist

Balázs Telek, Vitruvius Uomo I, 2000. Silver gelatin print. Courtesy Alma and the artist’s estate

Éva Köves & Andrea Sztojánovits, Monochrome Clack 1.2, 2009-2016. Multimedia installation (music mix by Kinga Kovács a.k.a. DJ Sanyi. Courtesy Alma and the artist