Géza Perneczky

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Géza Perneczky (2007)

Géza Perneczky (born May 21, 1936 in Keszthely , Hungary) is a Hungarian art historian, writer, visual artist, curator and educator.

Géza Perneczky is known as an important art author and contemporary witness of the development of art in the 20th century, whose work is particularly important as a link between the Hungarian and international art scene. In 2006 he was awarded the Hungarian State Prize Széchenyi -Díj.

Life and life's work

Géza Perneczky was born on May 21, 1936 in Keszthely, Hungary . In 1957 he graduated from the piano and choir director faculties at the Bartók Béla Music Academy in Budapest . 1957-1962 he studied art history as well as Hungarian language and literature at the Loránd Eötvös Science University (ELTE) in Budapest.

Already during his first professional activity as editor of the Hungarian art publisher (Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadó) he took an active part in the art of the avant-garde . With his features articles from 1966–68 for the daily “ Magyar Nemzet ” and 1968–1970 for the cultural weekly newspaper “ Élet és Irodalom ”, he also worked as an employee for art and cultural programs on Hungarian television for the new groups outside the state-sponsored Used in the art scene. With his numerous publications he supported many artists from the opposition art scene, such as the members of the former Kassák circle and the “European School”, as well as the neo-avant-garde artists of the “Iparterv Group”.

After a study trip to Western Europe , where he saw Harald Szeemann's “When Attitudes Become Form” exhibition, he created five issues of a hand-printed monthly periodical with original collages - works of concrete and conceptual art in 50/100 copies (later known as Five Books) .

After emigrating to Germany in December 1970, he devoted himself to artistic activities, he also taught at the Apostelgymnasium in Cologne and worked as a freelancer for Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk . In his ideas workshop in Cologne he developed concept works, photo art and artist books.

From 1973 he took part more intensively in the Post- Fluxus movements (Stamp Art, Mail Art , Artist's Books ) and these works were collected, in addition to Hungary, especially in Holland and the USA (Artpool in Budapest, Other Books and so in Amsterdam ; Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA special collections in New York City , museums in Chicago and others).

In the 1980s he corresponded with the well-known Dada and Fluxus collector Jean Brown , through whom Perneczky's artist books and conceptual works became part of the Getty collections. From 1984 he became increasingly involved with painting (roller stamp pictures and so-called string pictures) and took part in exhibitions in Hungary, Germany and other European countries. After he received German citizenship in 1980, he was able to publish again in Hungary. His art theoretical articles, books and artist monographs have since appeared again in Hungary and with his Samizdat publishing house "Softgeometry" he provides the Hungarian art world with information and contributions, as a constant observer of the international art scene. In 1985 he succeeded in holding together the extensive estate of Lajos Barta , the sculptor and draftsman who worked in Cologne and was the first abstract sculptor in Hungary, and transferred it to Hungary.

For decades, Perneczky remained closely connected to the most important Hungarian art institutions (Ludwig Museum Budapest, Kunsthalle Budapest , Szt. István Király Múzeum Székesfehérvár , MODEM [Center for Modern and Contemporary Art] in Debrecen ), where he is considered an initiator and advisor. Following his passion for mathematics, he wrote his own fractals and published a book on fractal processes. His comprehensive work on all of the plant genera he describes (2010) is kept at the Chair of Plant Systematics at ELTE in Budapest.

In 2016, Perneczky donated his important Soft Geometry Archive to the Center for Artists' Publications of the University of Bremen (Weserburg). Perneczky has steadily expanded the internationally significant Soft Geometry Archive in Cologne since the early 1970s; it includes around 10,000 artistic positions of assemblings, graphics, collages, photos and correspondence.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1964 • G. Orez, The Hague
  • 1969 • Eötvös Club, Budapest
  • 1973 • In Out-Center, Amsterdam
  • 1974 • Oeldorf (Cologne)
  • 1977 • Verlag-G. Leaman, Düsseldorf
  • 1980 • Museum of Concept Art, San Francisco
  • 1981 • G. Jatki, Wrocław
  • 1982 • G. St Petri, Lund (SVE)
  • 1983 • Kundoldstrasse 34., Kassel • Atelierhaus Wandelhalle, Cologne
  • 1984 • De Media, Eeklo, Gent
  • 1985 • Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (School of the Art Institute), Chicago
  • 1985 • Art Forum in the City Center, Aachen
  • 1986 • Liget Galéria, Budapest • Gallery 361 °, Greenfield (USA)
  • 1987 • Budapest, Galéria Lajos u., Budapest
  • 1997 • Guy Bleus ' email Art Archives, Center for Beeldende Kunst, Hasselt
  • 2012 • Budapest, Karton Galéria (Perneczky: Yes-no művészet)
  • 2016 • Chimera-Project (Post Infinite), Budapest
  • 2016 • Center for Artist Publications, Bremen (Weserburg)
  • 2016 • Quotes from the Collection, MOCAK, Krakow
  • 2017 • Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét
  • 2018 • Chimera-Project (Identification Program - Early conceptual artists' books, 1970–71), Budapest
  • 2019 • Conceptual Photography from 1970s, Robert Capa - Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 • Vinyl Factory (Bookmarks - Revisiting Hungarian art of the 1960s and 1970s), London
  • 2018 • Kepes Institute (Neo-avant-garde and New Wave in Hungarian Photography), Eger
  • 2018 • Wende Museum & Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
  • 2017 • Ludwig Museum (Fluxus & Friends), Budapest
  • 2017 • Capa Center (Viewfinders), Budapest
  • 2017 • Chimera-Project, Pseudo Display, Budapest
  • 2017 • National Museum Warsaw (The Way They See), Warsaw
  • 2017 • Elizabeth Dee Gallery (With the Eyes of Others), Warsaw
  • 2017 • MOCAK, (Art in Art), Krakow
  • 2016 • In-Out Center, DeAppel Arts Center, Amsterdam
  • 2016 • Ludwig Museum Budapest, (The Wild West. A History of Wrocław's Avant-Garde), Budapest
  • 2016 • Vintage Gallery (Sequence), Budapest

Fonts (selection)

  • A háló: Alternatív művészeti áramlatok a folyóirat-kiadványaik tükrében, 1968-1988 [Budapest]: Héttorony, [1991]. - 300 p. ISBN 963-7855-24-6
  • A korszak mint műalkotás [Budapest]: Corvina, 1988 ([Budapest]: Kossuth) ISBN 963-13-2372-2
  • The artists' books in European view: the soul of books or the Third Generation? [Cologne] Soft Geometry, 1987. - 32 p.
  • Assembling magazines, 1969-2000: soft geometry / Géza Perneczky; [Budapest]: Árnyékkötők Found., 2007. - 254 p. ISBN 978-963-06-1974-5
  • fe Lugossy László: Otthon a rohanó, torzult világban. Székesfehérvár, Szent István Király Múzeum, 1989
  • Do it yourself literature. NOVELLÁK (1977–1981) Online ( Memento from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  • Fraktálok és eseményminták, Budapest: Kijárat, 1998, ISBN 963-9136-12-3 Fractal ( Memento of 20 January 2014 Internet Archive )
  • Jegyzetek Barta Lajosról: (társszerző: Ulrich Winkler), Cologne, Soft Geometry, 1995, 66 p.
  • Héj és lepel: Pauer Gyula művészetéről = Shell and veil: on the art of Gyula Pauer = Shell and cloth: the art of Gyula Pauer / [Budapest]: Noran, 2008. - 200 p., + DVD, ISBN 978-963- 9716-94-0
  • Kapituláció a szabadság előtt, [Pécs]: Jelenkor, cop. 1995, ISBN 963-7770-96-8
  • The magazine network: the trends of alternative art in the light of their periodicals 1968-1988, Cologne: Ed. Soft Geometry, 1993. - 285 p.
  • Mire jó a fraktálfilozófia? : (a nyelvről, a komputerről, a fraktálokról, a káoszelméletről és a modernizmus válságáról a művészettörténész szemével) - Cologne:, 1992. - 90 p.
  • Munkácsy [Budapest]: Corvina, 1970. - 46 p.
  • Művészet az ezredfordulón: tanulmányok a művészet végéről és a művészettörténet újrakezdéséről [Budapest]: Palatinus, 2006. - 337 p. ISBN 978-963-9651-50-0
  • Network Atlas: Works and Publications by the People of the First Network - Volume 1, AN, PDF file, 2.55 MB - - Volume 2, OZ, PDF file, 2.83 MB
  • Picasso - Picasso után [Budapest]: Corvina, 1989. - 190 p. ISBN 963-13-2826-0
  • The poly-dimensional fields of Saxon-Szász / Géza Perneczky; [publ. by the International MADI Museum Foundation]. - [Budapest]: Nk. MADI Múz. Alapítvány, 2002. - 104 p. ISBN 963-204-948-9
  • Rózsák nyesése: bolyongás a művész-galerista-műgyűjtő háromszögben - [Miskolc] Szépmesterségek Alapítvány, 2008. ISBN 978-963-06-5968-0
  • Selected concepts, actions and rubber stamp projects in form of artists' books and other publications, 1970-1984 Published: Köln: Soft Geometry, 2003.
  • The Soft Geometry Archives I. Correspondence Works & Labels (From the catalogs of the Perneczky archives), KÖLN, 2003 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
  • Story of the colorful ribbons, 1987-1994 Published: Köln: Soft Geometry, 2003.
  • List of sculptures by Lajos Barta. (Cologne: Soft Geometry, 1986)
  • Tanulmányút a Pávakertbe, [Budapest]: Magvető, 1969. - 357 p.,
  • Zuhanás a toronyból: válogatott írások 1983-1994, [Budapest]: Enciklopédia, 1994 ISBN 963-8477-07-5
  • 500 Marxist cells Published: Cologne, 1983
  • 7 GENERATED GRAPHICS written in L-system & realized by the software Fractint 1992-1995 [1] [2]

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personal data
SURNAME Perneczky, Géza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian art historian, writer, visual artist, curator and educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Keszthely , Hungary