PURE FORM - A Selection from the French Fine Art Collection of Vass Collection
Event details
- Location
- Modern Art Gallery - Vass László Collection
- Date
- Organizer
- House of Arts Veszprém
László Vass, master shoemaker and founder of world-renowned Vass Shoes, can rightly be called one of Hungary’s most significant art collectors today. His collection, which focuses primarily on constructivist tendencies, features works from the postwar decades that represent minimalist, concrete, and conceptual art of the postwar decades, as well as works by world-renowned artists.
He purchased the very first pieces of his collection—which currently consists of some 650 works of art—in the 1970s. In 1999, the collection was first exhibited at Csikász Gallery in Veszprém. It was then that the idea arose to permanently bring the exhibition, assembled from the collection, to Veszprém. The deposit agreement was signed 25 years ago, in 2001, by the city government and László Vass.The current Modern Art Gallery was created by connecting and merging three buildings. Architect Gábor Turányi and his colleagues, in the course of this complex design task involving many challenges, transformed buildings from different eras into the castle’s historic setting and into a gallery space.
The first permanent exhibition of the Vass Collection opened in June 2003 in the new building in Veszprém. Over the past 23 years, the Modern Art Gallery has hosted numerous exhibitions of international significance, including works by Max Bill, Bernar Venet, and Dóra Maurer. Continuing the presentation of international works by country, this time we focus on the oeuvre of artists associated with France. Moderation and elegance. Optical illusions and contemplative works. The simple visual expression of geometric systems. The square as the foundation of art. Modern Gallery – László Vass Collection’s latest selection, based on the concepts listed above, features the most significant works of constructive, concrete art and abstract, geometric tendencies.