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temporary exhibitions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Who will roll away the stone for us? – A Selection from the Works of B\u00e9la Kondor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Opening: March 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn contemporary Hungarian graphic art, the art of B\u00e9la Kondor is an \u2018Archimedean point\u2019\u2026 absorbing everything into itself, yet sovereignly shaping all into its own image.\u201d (Lajos N\u00e9meth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A defining question of human existence is voiced by the women hurrying to the tomb on Easter morning: \u201cWho will roll away the stone for us?\u201d<\/em> A massive obstacle had been set in place \u2014 \u201cthe stone\u2026 was very large\u201d .\u2014 sealing and closing off that which signifies passing and finitude. This human drama is expressed in the biblical scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is as if B\u00e9la Kondor gives voice to the same cry in his poem: \u201c\u2026With the humanly warm rays of your eyes, mellow the cold grin riveted on me.\u201d (Two Supplications, excerpt). \u201cWho will carry love across?\u201d asks his friend, the poet L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nagy, igniting a spark of hope that an answer may yet be found. Without an answer, life remains crushed beneath the immovable obstacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stone is often too large, reality all too real, while a host of angels surrounds Kondor\u2019s sensitive world. Behind his works, one senses the radiance of Christ\u2019s question: \u201cIs not life more\u2026?\u201d (Matthew 6:25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kondor\u2019s art is powerfully permeated by the constant presence of depth and height, by the magnetic pull of extreme poles. His surreal world \u2014 its figures, winged beings, structures and symbols \u2014 seems to hold him<\/strong> firmly to the ground amid the struggling decades of the twentieth century. They draw him downward, preventing him from breaking away from harsh reality, yet at the same time he knows that angelic wings encircle him. The sixteen creative years granted to him have remained with us as a rich and dynamic oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He heeded the advice of William Blake \u2014 \u201cI must Create a System, or be enslav\u2019d by another Man\u2019s\u201d* \u2014 for Kondor indeed created his own system, living it fully and leaving to us works born in a freedom unbound by \u201cisms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He learned from the old masters \u2014 Albrecht D\u00fcrer, Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake and Rembrandt \u2014 and in time became a master himself. His person and legacy stand as a high point in the history of Hungarian fine art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition presents etchings and paintings by B\u00e9la Kondor, borrowed from museums across the country and from three private collections, offering a glimpse into a rich oeuvre. It invites the visitor to pause and to confront the title of the exhibition \u2014 not without an answer: \u201cthe stone had been rolled away.\u201d<\/em> For the question has encountered the divine answer; this is the message of the Easter story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Jerusalem\u2014The Emanation of the Giant Albion: Chapter One, Plate 10<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Photos: Tam\u00e1s F\u00fcle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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