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Red Tail and Blue Pencil \u2013 Case Studies of Censorship, with Some Contemporary Reflections<\/h1>\n

May 3\u201316, 2015<\/h2>\n

If you don\u2019t know what the red tail or the blue pencil symbols in the title refer to, it is time you immerse yourself in the world of artworks banned during the 1960s and 1970s in Hungary due to cultural political considerations. By examining concrete cases of censorship through contemporaneous, obscure archival documents, the exhibition provides insight into the history of a progressive artistic group, the Studio of Young Artists\u2019 Association (SYAA), which has remained active to the present day. Furthermore, it provides a kaleidoscope – like cross section of works by artists who were regarded as dangerous. Reading the \u201cblue – penciled\u201d jury report books of the annual Studio exhibitions, one has many Aha! moments, not least of all because more than once the general public comes across works of art that a few decades ago were censored, but today are found in public art institutions. Symptomatically, the exhibition has been organized outside of the official institutional network, more specifically in an apartment, lest the ominous practice of banning exhibitions <\/text>perchance reawaken. <\/text><\/p>\n

Alongside the documents selected and presented in an <\/text>installation format, contemporary reflections <\/text>will summon the mechanisms of the censorship of the now by gone era. Two of the three artist pairs <\/text>invited to participate conjure specific events from the history of the Studio: one of them uses an <\/text>intercultural <\/text>meditative exercise to elaborate on the griefs experienced by artists in connection with<\/text>the 1967 exhibition. The other evokes the censorial gesture with respect to the 1978 exhibition in a <\/text>remake format. The third artist pair examines the institution of <\/text>censorship on a more general level <\/text>through the power practices of the 1970s.<\/text><\/p>\n

Exhibiting artist: L\u0151rinc Borsos, J\u00e1nos Br\u00fcckner – Milo\u0161 Toth, Laci&Bal\u00e1zs<\/p>\n

Curators: M\u00f3nika Zsikla, M\u00f3nika Zombori<\/p>\n

Venue: Studio flat of Little Warsaw (1134 Budapest, Bulcs\u00fa u. 20. VI.\/19.)<\/p>\n

Special thanks: Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Masz\u00e1k (translation), Bal\u00e1zs M\u00e1t\u00e9\/flashbackstudio (photo), Katalin Spengler (special attention)<\/p>\n

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Photo: M\u00e1t\u00e9 Bal\u00e1zs \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: M\u00e1t\u00e9 Bal\u00e1zs \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: M\u00e1t\u00e9 Bal\u00e1zs \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

Related events<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Objective censorship performance by Tam\u00e1s Seregi and M\u00e1ri\u00f3 Nemes Z., <\/span><\/strong>May 3, 2015<\/p>\n

Mediation talk at<\/span><\/strong> Red Tail and Blue Pencil \u2013 Case Studies of Censorship, with Some Contemporary Reflections, <\/b><\/span>May 12, 2015<\/p>\n

Subjective memory? A conversation with the neo-avant-garde artists of the 1960s in connection with the exhibition RED TAIL and BLUE PENCIL, <\/strong>May 26, 2015<\/p>\n

Participants: Ilona Keser\u00fc, Imre Bak, J\u00e1nos Faj\u00f3<\/p>\n

Moderator: J\u00f3zsef M\u00e9lyi, art historian<\/p>\n

Venue: St\u00fadi\u00f3 Gal\u00e9ria (1077, Rottenbiller u. 35.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibiting artist: L\u0151rinc Borsos, J\u00e1nos Br\u00fcckner – Milo\u0161 Toth, Laci&Bal\u00e1zs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"biennale_esemeny":[34],"projekt_category":[36],"tagek":[],"class_list":["post-6738","projekt","type-projekt","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","biennale_esemeny-34","projekt_category-exhibitions"],"yoast_head":"\nRed Tail and Blue Pencil - OFF Bienn\u00e1l\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/offbiennale.hu\/en\/2015\/6738\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Tail and Blue Pencil - OFF Bienn\u00e1l\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exhibiting artist: L\u0151rinc Borsos, J\u00e1nos Br\u00fcckner - 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