On Wednesday, 24 September, this year’s edition of Budapest Contemporary Art Fair will open its doors, where Einspach & Czapolai Fine Art once again welcomes visitors at one of the fair’s highlighted booths.

 

As always, our focus is on fostering dialogue between different generations and artistic attitudes. The works on view, selected from our artists’ most recent creations, provide a comprehensive picture of the formal and conceptual diversity that represents a cornerstone of our programme.

 

This year, we are preparing a special surprise: the presentation of Amerigo Tot’s monumental masterpiece from 1970, which recently resurfaced in Italy during the renovation of a hair salon, discovered hidden behind a wall. Alongside this highlight, we will present new works by Muntean/Rosenblum, Ákos Ezer, Gábor Fülöp, Dániel Kármán, Gábor Király, Mira Makai, Tamás Melkovics, Orsi Nyíri, and Tamás Soós, as well as a curated selection of works by Tamás Dezső, László Fehér, Katalin Hetey, István Haász, Norbert Kotormán, Tamás Jovanovics, Sándor Molnár, István Nádler, Gábor Pap, Béla Szilárdi, and György Szőnyei.

 

We are also especially delighted that this year’s international section of Budapest Contemporary will feature Orshi Drozdik’s iconic work Diverting the Diagonal (Átlóeltérítés). Created in Toronto between 1980–81, this seminal piece centres on a critical reinterpretation of the body, geometry, and art historical tradition. In her video-documented performance, Drozdik used her own body as a tool to overwrite the order of perspective and geometric structures, inscribing her personal history and female experience onto the canvas. Diverting the Diagonal is at once a radical and poetic gesture—an act of rethinking the modernist canon while foregrounding individual freedom and the visibility of the female subject.

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Photos: Dávid Bíró