Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Jun-Aug 2011

KĂĄroly Escher, Bank Manager at the Baths, Budapest 1938. Gelatin silver print 23.6 x 17.9 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, KecskemĂŠt

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june 31 May – 9 Jul ≥ page 3 • exhibition Modern Visions: Hungarian Photography Then and Now 2 Jun – 8 Jul ≥ page 3 • exhibition Unfolding

by Andrea Bátorfi 6 Jun ≥ page 5 • monday music soirees Guildhall School students Concert

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literature New Order: Hungarian Poets with George Szirtes, Anna Szabó T. and András Gerevich •

7 Jul ≥ page 16 • photo exhibition Made in Hungary 19 Jul ≥ page 17 • photo exhibition Tamás Dezső representing Hungarian photography

9 Jun ≥ page 6 • jazz Péter Rozsnyói at the HCC

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18 & 19 Jun ≥ page 7 • film festival Turin Horse, dir. Béla Tarr

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16 Jun ≥ page 8 • film club Bibliothéque Pascal

literature László Krasznahorkai at Edinburgh International Book Festival

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21 Jun – 29 Jul ≥ page 9 • photo exhibition Little White Man Reports

by Péter Flanek 23 & 24 Jun ≥ page 10 • world music Muzsikás 25 Jun ≥ page 10 • world music Söndörgô 30 Jun – 2 Oct ≥ page 12 • photo exhibition Eyewitness: Hungarian photography in the 20th century

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e EXHIBITION Modern Visions: Hungarian Photography Then and Now János Szász and Gábor Kerekes It is impossible to imagine the history of photography without the contributions of a vast array of extraordinary talents from Hungary. As the cliché went, “You don’t have to be Hungarian to be a great photographer—but it helps.”

HotShoe presents two bodies of work from two photographers whose work spans the mid 20th Century to the present day, János Szász and Gábor Kerekes.

Their work epitomizes the Hungarian talent for innovation and artistic expression that continues the great tradition established by Brassaï, André Kertész, Martin Munkácsi, Robert Capa and László Moholy-Nagy. Δ Free. For further information please visit www.hotshoegallery.com or www.hungary.org.uk

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e EXHIBITION UNFOLDING – On the Border of Two Worlds A photo-graphical installation and animated film by Andrea Bátorfi In her project on display at the Hoopers Gallery, the artist steps out of the generic framework of the two-dimensional still picture and invites the visitor to a sensual and meditative journey that offers a complex experience. With the help of her nature-documentary images – which she creates with the help of a special procedure – she opens

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a gate to an invisible reality beyond ordinary perception. Paradoxically, inside the exhibition space the horizon is gradually expanding.

At the first stage of the journey we meet individual photo-graphics. The journey of dimension changes proceeds with the so-called lenticular works which provide a three-dimensional experience and are displayed in light-boxes. In her animated film the artist recounts the great adventure of the spirit. The logically perfectly constructed project starts out from the state of "through a glass, darkly” and through conjecture-like, mysterious transitions it leads the spectator to the final light-state.

Andrea Bátorfi creates symmetric compositions from multiple exposure photographs, pieced together according to a strict formal order. In the multiple exposure photographs various accidental natural phenomena witnessed on the bank of the Danube – bare branches, the glitter of light reflected on the surface of the water – are superimposed within a single frame. In the images these familiar, ordinary elements become transparent because of the successive layers, and from the combination of these layers an invisible, yet for brief moments dimly perceptible dimension shows through. „...a lace-like pattern emerges, which operates like a light-structure developed from the depths of the soul: these are the snapshots of an unknown matrix, which she disentangles from the landscape to show us as road signs.” dr Béla Máriás, Life And Literature

The images of a new world organised by order and light seem to be the bearers and keepers of enormous energies. Through the inviting light-gates and picturesque light-spaces opening in the images we may set out on a journey through dimensions towards our own barely discovered but continuously expanding interior spaces.

Andrea Bátorfi is an artist as well as an art historian who lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. www.batorfiandrea.hu Δ For further information please visit the website of Hoopers Gallery www.hoopersgallery.co.uk

For private view bookings please call 020 72406162 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Monday | 6 June | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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e MONDAY MUSIC SOIREES Concert of the Students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Ashley Fripp › piano

Jennifer Miles › piano

Eleanor Laugharne › soprano

Nicholas Allen, › tenor

Act I Ashley Fripp (piano) Ashley Fripp was described as ‘disarmingly precocious’ by the New York times, he has already given solo recital and concerto performances in many of the most prestigious venues throughout the UK, such as the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Cadogan Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Royal Festival Hall.

He has made appearances on BBC television and radio, and has also been awarded first prizes at over a dozen prestigious competitions including the 1st Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianists in 2006 and was a Keyboard Finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2004. Recent international invitations have taken him to Poland, Germany and China.

programme act i Ferenc Liszt: • Vier Kleine Klavierstücke, S. 192 i) in E major ii) in A flat major iii) in F-sharp major iv) in F-sharp major • La Lugubre Gondola I, S. 200 • Trübe Wolken (Nuages Gris), S. 199 • Années de pèlerinage – Deuxieme Année – Italie, S. 161 No. 1. Sposalizio No. 7. Après une lecture du Dante ‘Fantasia quasi Sonata’

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Ashley studied piano and composition at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music Junior Department. In 2007 he moved to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is currently the inaugural Yamaha Artist Scholar, studying with Professor Ronan O'Hora.

Future engagements feature performances throughout the UK, including a début at Kings Place, London, and a commercial recording of both Chopin Concertos in Germany.

Ashley Fripp gratefully acknowledges generous financial support from the following: The Salters’ Company, Yamaha Music UK Ltd.

www.ashleyfripp.co.uk

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Act II Jennifer Miles, piano Eleanor Laugharne, soprano Nicholas Allen, tenor After gaining a BA Hons degree in music at the University of York, Jennifer Miles continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with a post-graduate diploma in Piano ccompaniment.

In 2002 – 2003, she held the Meaker Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. She is currently studying for a Masters Degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Jennifer has given recitals with many outstanding musicians in venues throughout the UK including the Wigmore Hall, St Martin’s-in-theField, St John’s Smith Square and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. She accompanied a Brass finalist in the televised BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Jennifer has performed all over the world both as a soloist and as part of various duos with P&O, Fred Olsen and Saga Cruise Lines. She was on the Live Music Now! scheme, bringing music to audiences who would not necessarily be able to attend concerts themselves.

programme act ii Songs of Ferenc Liszt Im Rhein, in schönen Strome Die Lorelei Soprano › Eleanor Laugharne Three Petrarch Sonnets I Pace non trovo II Benedetto sia 'l giorno III l' vidi in terra angelifci costumi Tenor › Nicholas Allen S’il est un charmant gazon Oh, quand je dors Enfant, si j'etais roi Soprano › Eleanor Laugharne

Jennifer also works as a freelance pianist at the Royal Academy of Dance and has been Musical Director of the East Sussex School of Performing Arts for sixteen years. Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk

& Wednesday | 8 June | 7.30 pm ≥ 606 Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10

Thursday | 9 June | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e JAZZ A road from Bach to Liszt According to the seasoned critic of Downbeat, John McDonough, a musicians’ musician is someone whose music is too good for the audience. Pianist Péter Rozsnyói fits the bill perfectly. This enormously gifted, brilliant young pianist is held in great esteem by

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Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk

Saturday | 18 June | 7.10 pm & Sunday | 19 June | 4.45 pm ≥ Filmhouse ✉ 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ e FILM edinburgh international film festival, 15–26 june

Turin Horse (A torinói ló) dir. Béla Tarr, 2010

This Berlinale 2011 Silver Bear winner is rumoured to be the swan song from the Hungarian master, and has its UK premier at the EIFF 2011.

In Turin, in 1889, the German philosopher Friederich Nietzsche once stopped a cab driver from whipping

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Partnering him on bass will be Tom Mason, a fantastic young musician who has already played with the likes of Questlove, Athena, Robin Eubanks, Gwilym Simcock, Famadou Don Moye, the BBC Big Band, not to mention the fantastic Anglo Hungarian Band at the 2008 London Jazz Festival fronted by Gerard Presencer and Kálmán Oláh.

Tom’s choice on the drums is George Hart, a brilliant fellow graduate from the Royal Academy of Music.

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his fellow musicians and the cognoscenti. When he was still a student at the Ferenc Liszt Academy, Britain’s jazz piano legend, Julian Joseph already picked him out as the most talented at his master class in Budapest. Peter’s style is instantly recognizable.

He is practically unique inasmuch, unlike Jacques Loussier, he doesn’t jazz up Bach but „bachs up” jazz instead. And he does that more originally and with better taste than any of his contemporaries.

This means an extremely logical construction, which at the same time, is imbued by the spontaneity and vigor of jazz. He is also a highly original and gifted composer.

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his horse, and promptly collapsed, living his remaining ten years in more or less demented silence. A stunningly composed, leisurely fable, Béla Tarr is one of EIFF 2011 guest curators; he’s programmed a trio of little known (in the UK) masterpieces of Hungarian Cinema. Δ Tickets £7.50/£9.00. For further information and booking

please visit www.edfilmfest.org.uk

Thursday | 16 June | 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

e FILM CLUB Bibliothéque Pascal (Bibliothéque Pascal) 2010, 111 min, German-Hungarian coproduction, dir. Szabolcs Hajdú

Mona Paparu is bringing up her three-year-old daughter alone. Because of a trip abroad she has to leave the child with her aunt. The Child Protection Agency takes the little girl away from the aunt. When Mona returns home she has to give an account to the CPA on how she spent her time abroad. The film tells the story of her travels, her love and the story of her life in Western Europe... as recounted by Mona Paparu.

‘Truth is stodgier than fiction in Szabolcs Hajdu's visually impressive Bibliotheque Pascal, a dark sex-trafficking fairy tale from Central Europe. The talented writerhelmer imbues a crude and ugly business with a surrealistic beauty as he transforms the disturbing memories of a Hungarian-Romanian femme sold into the sex trade into stories and tableaux with Terry Gilliamesque touches. The pic, which won the top gong at the Hungarian Film Week and also unspools in Berlin's Forum section, is tailor-made for fests; but the story's semi-Freudian acrobatics won't wash with mainstream auds.’ Boyd Van Hoeij Director: Szabolcs Hajdu Screenplay: Szabolcs Hajdu Photography: András Nagy Cast: Orsolya Török-Illyés, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu, Andi Vasluianu, Shamgar Amram, Mihai Constantin , Lujza Hajdu, Ion Sapdaru Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Little White Man Reports Photographs by Péter Flanek The picture should be familiar to all of us from television news broadcasting: the correspondent is holding a microphone and speaking while behind him the events are happening live. The reporter is immaculately dressed and well-groomed. He has to raise his voice once or twice and the wind blows into his hair but he keeps on talking and in front of the very eyes of the viewers he documents history live – he reports on what is happening behind him in the background.

The Little White Man photo series draws upon this image of the well-groomed, history-making, heroic journalist. Originally, the working title of the project was closely related to journalism. Later, however, the direct reference to journalism detached itself and the project became the Little White Man series of the present exhibition.

The correspondent (tourist) is the person who authenticates the events for us; he reports and records, and by putting himself in the foreground, he proves that he was actually there. To get in the picture is indicative of the power of the image as proof: the appropriation, acquisition and possession of the image in given situations – in the form of figure and city, figure and street scene, figure and composition.

The old-fashioned picture taking method of the camera obscura that Flanek used and the unusual balance of the pictures in the context of modern thoughts and images result in an exciting dichotomy, a creative conflict. Δ Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or register on our website at www.hungary.org.uk

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e EXHIBITION

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Tuesday | 21 June | 7 pm ≥ Private view exhibition open: 21 june – 29 july, opening hours: mon–fri 9 am – 5 pm

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Friday | 24 June | 7.45 pm ≥ The Anvil, Basingstoke

e WORLD MUSIC Muzsikás

Hungary’s world-renowned musicians are back in London! Muzsikás is the first Hungarian folk ensemble accepted by the classical music scene, as they fuse traditional Hungarian music with the classical compositions of Bartók, Kodály, Kurtág and Ligeti. This is a unique opportunity to see and hear them in London. Δ For ticket information contact the Southbank Centre on 0844 875 0073 or visit www.southbank.co.uk

Saturday | 25 June | 9 pm ≥ Hall One, Kings Place ✉ 90 York Way, London N1 9AG e WORLD MUSIC songlines encounters at kings place:

Söndörgô Söndörgô (pronounce Shoendoergoe) is one of the most active and interesting world music groups in Hungary. They play a style of music that is hugely attractive, but little known and quite different from the traditional, fiddle-led Hungarian repertoire. Their aim is to foster and preserve Southern Slavic traditions of the Serbs and Croats as found in various settlements in Hungary. Most of these communities are situated along the Danube, but quite isolated from each other.

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Söndörgô performs regularly in festivals in Hungary and around Europe. They will present here their new album Tamburising – Lost Music of the Balkans with the singer and actress Kátya Tompos.

‘Söndörgô are proving themselves to be one of Europe’s most versatile and exciting bands.’ Simon Broughton, Songlines Magazine Δ For ticket information and booking please contact Kings Place on 020 7520 1490 or visit

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Unlike most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörgô is not playing brass band music, it is a tamburitza band. The tambura is a small and agile plucked instrument similar to the mandolin, which is occasionally supplemented by wind instruments and accordion.

Söndörgô’s traditional repertoire is made up of material gathered by Béla Bartók and Tihamér Vujicsics as well as learned from old masters of the tradition.

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The group was founded in 1995 in Szentendre, a small Hungarian town near Budapest, with long-established Serbian tradition. The Eredics brothers got acquainted and started to play music together with (bass player) Attila Buzás during their high-school years. Partly because of family reasons (Kálmán Eredics, the father of the Eredics brothers, was a founding member of the Vujicsics ensemble), all the group members are profoundly touched by, and drawn towards Southern Slav folk music. Söndörgô’s mission is to research it, arrange it and perform it on stage. The current members of the group are: Áron Eredics, Benjamin Eredics, Dávid Eredics, Salamon Eredics and Attila Buzás.

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30 June – 2 October 2011 ≥ Royal Academy of Arts ✉ Piccadilly, London

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e EXHIBITION Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi ‘We need photographs to communicate our particularities and our national character’ wrote Rudolf Balogh in 1914. At the time, photography – like other forms of Hungarian art – was firmly under the influence of European practice, but within decades Hungary’s photographers had achieved worldwide recognition. Among Balogh’s countrymen were individuals who would leave their home country to profoundly influence the course of modern photography: Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi are each known for the important changes they brought about in photojournalism, art and fashion photography. Their legacies cannot be underestimated; Capa was a co-founder of Magnum Photos, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who himself took up photography after seeing an image by Munkácsi, later said ‘Whatever we have done, Kertész did first’. Hungary produced a remarkable number of leading photographers. By following their paths through Germany, France, America and elsewhere, the exhibition will signal key points of departure in modern photography.

Many Hungarians travelled the world with their cameras, but others remained in Hungary producing innovatory photography across a broad range of genres and styles. From the early twentieth century professional and club photography of Rudolf Balogh and József Pécsi, to the more recent documentary and art photography of Péter Korniss and Imre Benkô, Hungary has sustained an active photographic tradition, in which different European influences have been interpreted through a particularly Hungarian sensibility. A presentation of key works by selected photographers, alongside contextual material providing a backdrop André Kertész Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926 Gelatin silver print, 25.2 x 20.3 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

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Martin Munkácsi, Nude, 1935. Gelatin silver print, 27.7 x 35.5 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

of political and economic change in Hungary, will explore the diversity and richness of Hungary’s photographic milieu between c. 1914 and c. 1989.

The varied subject matter will include ‘Magyar style’ images of rural Hungary; urbanite ‘New Photography’ in Budapest and Berlin; Paris as defined by Brassaï and Kertész in their evocative images of street life and the émigré community to which they both belonged (Picasso, Mondrian, Chagall et al); innovative fashion shots by Munkácsi; powerful photojournalism of war, and social documentary in post-war Hungary.

The exhibition will consist of about two hundred photographs, almost all black and white, reflecting the fact that many were taken for reproduction in newspapers; throughout examples of magazines and books it will chart the dynamic relationship with the illustrated press – central to Hungarian photography at home and abroad.

Károly Escher Bank Manager at the Baths, Budapest, 1938 Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 17.9 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

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Robert Capa, Collaborator Woman who had a German Soldier’s Child, Chartres, 18 August 1944. Gelatin silver print, 23.6 x 17.9 cm, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét. © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

The narratives of those who left Hungary will be interwoven with those who remained, bringing together photographs which were taken ‘worlds apart’ but between which there are echoes and dialogues. The collection of these individual stories will manifest the powerful cultural connection between Hungary and photography, and chart fundamental changes in twentieth-century photography, such as the advent of the handheld camera, the increasing influence of photojournalism and the movement of photography into the gallery and art market.

The exhibition is curated by independent scholar Colin Ford with Péter Baki, Director of the Hungarian Museum of Photography in Kecskemét, from which the majority of the photographs will be loaned. Additional material will travel from the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and other holdings in Hungary and the UK. Royal Academy Publications will produce an illustrated catalogue of the exhibition with contributions from the curators and the Hungarian-born English poet and writer George Szirtes.

Δ Royal Academy of Arts opening times: 10 am– 6 pm Saturday –Thursday 10 am– 6 pm Friday General enquiries: 020 7300 8000, Book tickets: 0844 209 0051 (international callers please telephone +44 (0)844 209 0051) www.royalacademy.org.uk

Exhibition organized by the Royal Academy of Arts on the occasion of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU 2011

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Saturday | 2 July | 1.15 pm ≥ Burgage Hall ✉ Church Lane, Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 1DH

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e LITERATURE ledbury poetry festival, 1–10 july

New Order: Hungarian Poets with George Szirtes, Anna Szabó T. and András Gerevich George Szirtes, Anna Szabó T. and András Gerevich will read from New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation (Arc Publications: 2010, ed. George Szirtes) at the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Their UK tour with Arc Publications continues to Manchester and Hebden Bridge on Monday 4 July. The Hungarian Cultural Centre in London is pleased to work with Arc Publications to help promote Hungarian poetry.

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This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the poetics of a new post-1989 Europe. The poetics are still in the making but important poets appear and develop. They are writers whose mature work has been produced in the new social, psychological and political circumstances. They include major women poets such as Anna Szabó T. and Krisztina Tóth as well as highly acclaimed figures like János Térey and András Gerevich.

The translators are chiefly poets of the same generation – Owen Sheers, Antony Dunn, Clare Pollard, Matthew Hollis and Ágnes Lehoczky, whose work sits alongside writers long associated with the translation of Hungarian poetry: George Gömöri, Clive Wilmer, Peter Zollman and the editor, George Szirtes. The publication is part of Arc’s Anthologies in Translation series. Δ Tickets: £8. For further information and booking please visit www.poetry-festival.com

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Thursday | 7 July | 7 pm ≥ Private view exhibition open: 7 july – 20 august ≥ Michael Hoppen Gallery

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e PHOTO EXHIBITION Made in Hungary The Michael Hoppen Gallery, in conjunction with the Royal Academy, is delighted to present an exhibition of rare vintage Hungarian photographs from the early 20th Century. This exhibition includes many rare items from a substantial collection of vintage photographs. The show coincides with the large and important retrospective at the Royal Academy curated by Colin Ford. Both exhibitions celebrate the extraordinary richness of Hungary’s modern photographic tradition with diverse subject matter ranging from fashion, reportage and portraiture, often experimental in nature.

It is generally agreed that many of the world’s most influential photographers from the 1920’s and 1930’s came from Hungary. Martin Munkácsi re-defined fashion and lifestyle photography, influencing the likes of Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier-Bresson who both cited his work as the key reason they became photographers. László Moholy-Nagy, considered by many to have been the father of modern photography and was also originally from Hungary before moving to the Bauhaus in Germany and then to Chicago. André Kertész defined and mastered an alternative style to Cartier-Bresson’s ‘decisive moment’ and is also revered as one of the most important figures in the canon of 20th Century photography.

Lucile Brokaw, Piping Rock Beach, Long Island, 1933 © Martin Munkácsi. Courtesy of the Michael Hoppen Gallery

Δ For further information please visit www.michaelhoppengallery.com or www.hungary.org.uk Free. For private view reservations please call 0207 352 3649 or e-mail gallery@michaelhoppengallery.com

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e PHOTO EXHIBITION eunic photo summer

Tamásô Dezsô representing Hungarian photography

The EUNIC London cluster and the EC Representation in the UK commissioned Simon Baker, Tate Photography Curator, to select the contents of a truly European Summer Photo Exhibition. The work of international award-winning photo journalist Tamás Dezsô will represent Hungary in the exhibition. Δ Free. For further information please visit

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e LITERATURE edinburgh international book festival, 13 – 29 august

László Krasznahorkai László Krasznahorkai makes an appearance at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival. The renowned Hungarian writer made a name in 1985 with his first major publication Sátántangó. In 1993, his novel The Melancholy of Resistance received the German “Bestenliste-Prize” for the best literary work of the year. From the United States to Japan, critics have acknowledged the importance of his writing.

According to Susan Sontag, he is “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville”.

In 1996, he was a guest of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. While completing the novel War and War, he travelled widely across Europe. The American poet Allen Ginsberg was of great assistance in completing the work.

Since 1985, the internationally celebrated director and the author’s good friend Béla Tarr has made films almost exclusively based on Krasznahorkai’s works, including the highly successful Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies. His collaboration with Tarr continues to this day: Krasznahorkai writes the screenplays, and assists the director in all important decisions.

His works have been translated into English (New Directions Publishers), into German (Rowohlt, Ammann, S. Fischer), French (Gallimard, Cambourakis), Spanish (Acantilado), Polish (W.A.B.), Czech (Host, Mlada Fronta), Bulgarian (Stigmati), and Japanese (Shoraisha, Keio), among other languages.

Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. In 2008, he was the S. Fischer guest professor at the Free University of Berlin. Δ For further information and booking please visit www.edbookfest.co.uk

Please note that most of our events are now scheduled to start at 7 pm.

For reservations please email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

If you wish to receive more information about our upcoming events, please send an e-mail to culture@hungary.org.uk. Thank you for your interest.

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The HCC team: Dr Ildikó Takács | Director Dávid Kerényi | Finance Manager Szilvia Csányi | Head of Administration and Referee of Education Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Hanna Kiss | Consultant, Visual Arts Judit Kôrös | Consultant, Information Service and Film Events Dr Gábor Egri | Senior Consultant, Music Péter Pallai | Jazz Consultant If you are interested in joining the Friends of the Hungarian Cultural Centre please contact Ruth and Robert Wing on 020 7351 7653 or email r.wing@imperial.ac.uk The Reading Room, our Information Service and the rental of video films are available on Mondays and Thursdays between 11 am and 7 pm.

For more information, please call our information consultant, Judit Kôrös.

The information in this brochure is believed to be correct at the time of going to press, but as this may be three months or more before the events take place, we strongly advise you to confirm dates, times and availability before setting out for any particular event.

The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

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