Kortárs magángyűjtemények V.: Balázs Csaba gyűjteménye, Brutál és naiv

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An exhibition retrieved from the original WordPress archive of the Godot Galéria.

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The Godot Gallery cordially invites you to

Contemporary Private Collections

for the fifth part of the exhibition series, titled

Imre Bukta

Brutal and Naive

which exhibition is presented from Balázs Csaba's Collection. Opening on 2004 December 8 at 20.

Opening by Katalin Spengler.

The artists represented in the collection are: Bada Dada, Bukta Imre, efZámbó István, feLugossy László, Földi Péter, Oláh Mátyás, Ujházi Péter, Wahorn András.

Mátyás Oláh

Details from a study written about the collection of Ébli Gábor and Balázs Csaba:

Balázs Csaba met Takács Lajos in the 90s, the owner of Gallery Christoff, who became their main mentor for a few years. Takács, both as a collector and as an art dealer, was a devotee of the Vajda Lajos Studio, so it is no surprise that Balázs’s collection is fundamentally built around works by Zámbó István, and Lugossy László, and, to a lesser extent, Wahorn András. Although their paths have since diverged, Balázs still holds the VLS in high regard today. The unconventional, surreal juxtapositions of ideas, the unrefined formal execution and the work’s civic‑shocking message all suit the free, spontaneous, rejection of conformity “loose” personality. As a former fan of the whole Committee, it was not difficult for him to come to love these pieces. In Lugo’s works he especially enjoys non‑European facial features; proudly he displays on his wall works from Wahorn that a gallery friend gifted him, claiming that he can no longer stand to look at them. From Zámbó Öci, however—although he values the early pieces greatly—he also regards the current paintings as authentic, saying that only the weakness of the art market, the lack of stable buyers forces the artist towards today’s lighter creations.

Ujházi Péter

The case of enduring old passions remains that of Ujházi Péter. It was from the series the master painted on Nadápon that Balázs and Takács each bought a whole work together. At first it was not entirely clear what made it a lasting value or what a dozen such abstract compositions in a raw fresco could be good for. Balázs and his wife even got exasperated – what was the point of all these pictures? Yet today a piece of the series hangs on the main wall of their living room.

Bada Dada

Many other works were only appreciated with time. Outstanding pieces from Bukta Imré ended up with Balázs – essentially by chance. He looked at none of them for a long time, but one day he recognised one of the images on the cover of an important book. Nosza displayed the works in his office, but at that point his colleagues began to tease him. Few people understand Bukta’s applications at first glance, but Balázs now supported them as well, and after a lot of debate he fell in love with these compositions. Today the collection – commendably rich, though uneven in quality – even in its small sculpture section boasts a fine Bukta sculpture among the favourites.

The exhibition runs until 7 and is open from Tuesday to Friday between 10 and 18, on Saturday between 10 and 13 hours, Closed between December 23. and January 2 between.

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