Atlas
Gábor Gerhes
Kiscelli Museum
Hungarian and English
Hardcover
368 pages
190 x 235 mm
2024
The centerpiece of the ATLAS exhibition, which is almost five years in the making, is Gábor Gerhes’ three hundred and sixty-eight-page illustrated encyclopedia. The publication contains nearly four hundred new works. Comprising twelve plus one books, ATLAS is a unique reinterpretation of the current genre of atlases that attempt to map the world. Its editorial principles are quite arbitrary: the chapters vary in scope and include concepts from the recognized, hidden and alternative sciences, as well as concepts borrowed from literature and the visual arts. The photographs of Gábor Gerhes recording his pseudo-observations appear in the book arranged under these terms. All visitors can pick up the ATLAS from the shelves of a unique installation in the Church Hall of the Kiscelli Museum during the exhibition. The robust structure that organizes these publications represents both the methods and places of acquiring, storing and categorizing knowledge: the book, the vitrine, the bookshelf, the library and the museum.
(Source: https://hypeandhyper.com/special-installation-presents-the-atlas-works-of-gabor-gerhes)
About the Artist
Gábor Gerhes (1962–) is a Munkácsy Mihály Prize winning visual artist, university educator, a regular member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. An external lecturer at the Media Design Program of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design between 2006–2015, he has filled the same position at the Budapest Metropolitan University since 2010. A former Vice-President of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, he is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers, and of the Intermedia Section of the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists. His work has been acknowledged repeatedly, with the scholarship of the Soros Foundation, the Eötvös Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture, the Derkovits Scholarship, the Munkácsy Prize and numerous other prizes and distinctions. In 2004–2005 he worked in Recollettes with the French government’s creative scholarship, in 2006 he was Kulturkontakt’s Vienna scholarship awardee. In 2017–2019, he sat on the jury of the Association of Hungarian Photographers’ photography scholarship, and in 2017–2018 he was first a member, and then chair, of the international jury for the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize.
His works can be found in public collections, like the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Gallery – Kiscelli Museum, the Public Foundation for Modern Art in Dunaújváros (ICA-D), the MODEM in Debrecen, the Hungarian Museum of Photography, Szombathely Gallery, the King St. Stephen Museum of Székesfehérvár, Vintage Gallery and the KOGART Foundation.
He is featured in such private collections as the Irokéz Collection, the Somlói-Spengler Collection, the Swiss H. Ringier Collection and the Kunsthaus Glarus, and one of the largest corporate collections, the German Stiftung DZ Bank AG – Frankfurt am Main. In Hungary the artist is represented by acb Gallery.
(Source: https://www.maimano.hu/programs/exhibition-gabor-gerhes-der-plan)
About the Publisher
The Kiscelli Museum presents the history of Budapest, one of the most exciting cities in Central Europe, and the people who shaped it from the 18th to the 21st centuries. The museum’s diverse exhibitions offer visitors a glimpse into the ever-changing nature of the capital. Our mission is to ensure that tourists and Budapest residents alike can discover the unique spirit and energy of the capital for themselves.
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(Source: http://www.kiscellimuzeum.hu/kiscelli_muzeum)
