Pauer 2005-Retrospective at the Mûcsarnok
Pauer 2005-Retrospective at the Mûcsarnok

Summary/Abstract: The year 2005 has brought Gyula Pauer major accolades. He was honoured with the Kossuth Prize for over four decades of achievement; his memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was installed by the Danube; over the summer, Hungary’s premier art exhibition hall, Budapest’s Mûcsarnok, mounted a retrospective on his oeuvre. For Pauer, once one of the ‘wild men’ of the Hungarian neo-avantgarde, this serial acclaim must have a special connotation: it can all be put down to the tardy recognition of a body of work that, being utterly incompatible with the dogmas laid down by the official tsars of artistic taste in the Kádár era, often had to contend with very tight constraints. [...]

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