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<td>Artpool summer events - and worrying news</td>
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<td>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:01:10 +0200</td>
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<td>Artpool Art Research Center <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:artpool@artpool.hu"><artpool@artpool.hu></a></td>
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<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word"><font
style="font-size:14px" color="#0042aa">Dear Friends and
Colleagues!</font>
<div><font style="font-size:14px" color="#0042aa"><br>
You are welcome again this year in Kapolcs, in the Valley
of Arts, at Artpool's ten-day summer event in <b>Area 51</b> and
at the <b>Galántai House</b>. This year's presentation
–"Telematic Society, Art in the Fourth Dimension" –
(curated by György Galántai) will reflect on the state of
culture and Artpool, and will revive previous Artpool
projects and events. In an ever-changing context, ideas,
images, videos and sounds are reinterpreted
and redefined...</font></div>
<div><font style="font-size:14px" color="#0042aa"><br>
Date: 19-28 July 2024, daily 10:00–18:00<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/446265434978555"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.facebook.com/events/446265434978555</a></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
——</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
<b>Unfortunately, we also have some worrying news to
report:</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
We didn't talk about it until now, but it seems we can't
keep it a secret any longer: </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px">after the first six very
successful years following our joining the Museum of
Fine Arts in 2015, from 2021 Artpool continued to operate
as a department of the then-established <a
href="https://kemki.hu/en/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Central European Research
Institute for Art History (KEMKI)</a>. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px">Here, however, for the
fourth year, incomprehensible, unexplained things are
happening around Artpool and its founders, György Galántai
and Julia Klaniczay.<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
<font color="#0433ff">Today, the Museum of Fine Arts
would like to keep Artpool's huge collection, but
would rather not respect the commitments made in the
2014 Donation Contract and wants to exclude Artpool's
creators and founders from the Artpool Art Research
Centre they created.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
Our Donation Contract with the Museum of Fine Arts – in
addition to the preservation and museum management of
the collection –, guaranteed the continued operation of
the Artpool Art Research Centre as an independent museum
department and, more specifically, the preservation of
the spirit based on the "<a
href="https://artpool.hu/archives_active.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Active Archive</a>" concept
developed by György Galántai, and the continuation of
the internationally recognised operating practice
established since 1992.<br>
Despite this, in addition to a number of measures to
make Artpool unimportant and impossible to operate, <font
color="#0433ff">György Galántai was expelled from
Artpool in January this year </font>(his access
card was invalidated and his contract was not renewed)
and for more than half a year he has been allowed only
as a guest in his own study, without free access to his
own documents or the collection he has created).<br>
Similarly,<font color="#0433ff"> the presence of Júlia
Klaniczay is planned to be restricted, and her recent
70th birthday, to which many artists and friends sent
contributions (artworks, videos, texts), was not
allowed to be celebrated at Artpool.</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
<a
href="https://kemki.hu/en/contentitems/details/24-David_Feher"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Dávid Fehér</a>,
the head of the Central European Research Institute for
Art History (KEMKI) – and "temporarily" also head of the
Artpool department for two years – <font color="#0433ff">wants
to see the founders of Artpool excluded</font>, and to
this end he <font color="#0433ff">considers the
discrediting of the founders in front of the staff and
the restriction of their work to be acceptable.<br>
</font><br>
We know nothing about the real aims and reasons! </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px">There is no justification,
explanation or any personal or
professional communication to clarify them; neither
Dávid Fehér nor László Baán, Director General of the
Museum of Fine Arts, has replied to official or private
letters.<br>
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</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><font color="#0433ff">We believe
that this unjust situation must be urgently remedied,
and we, founders of Artpool must be guaranteed
peaceful working conditions and unrestricted access to
the collection we created.<br>
</font><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px">It is <font
color="#0433ff">inconceivable, morally
and professionally unacceptable</font> that Artpool,
as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, should continue to
be associated with a leader (Dávid Fehér) or a
department (KEMKI) <font color="#0433ff">that does not
accept the identity of the of the founders, who are
still alive. </font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px">There is no reason why the
Museum of Fine Arts should not change this decision,
which has proved to be a mistake, and
restore the contractually guaranteed autonomy of the
Artpool Art Research Centre, with a suitable head
selected by a competitive tender.<br>
<br>
<font color="#0433ff">We would appreciate your support
in our struggle to end the absurd situation around
Artpool, to respect the 2014 Donation Contract and to
ensure that Artpool founders have a secure
working environment for the rest of their lives.<br>
</font><br>
If you would like to help us, please, write directly to
the Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Dr. László Baán: <a
href="mailto:laszlo.baan@szepmuveszeti.hu"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">laszlo.baan@szepmuveszeti.hu</a><br>
(cc: <a href="mailto:artpool@artpool.hu"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">artpool@artpool.hu</a>).<br>
<br>
with warm greetings and hugs:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px"><b>Julia Klaniczay and
György Galántai</b></span><br>
<br>
<font color="#666100">P.S.: Under the current conditions
in Hungary, one would hardly expect that artists and
critics (including art historians from the Central
and Eastern European region and similar regional art
institutions) who are in any way dependent on Dávid
Fehér and KEMKI, and who are financially
or professionally indebted to the art historians who
play a leading role there, would dare to make their
opinions heard.<br>
<br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#666100">But let's hope that there are
others in the artworld who know what Artpool and its
founders, György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay,
have achieved, and will not stand idly by and watch our
exclusion and the destruction of our oeuvre.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#444444">---<br>
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<b>Some informative links from our <a
href="https://artpool.hu/en" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">website</a>:</b><br>
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<div><a href="https://artpool.hu/institute/about.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://artpool.hu/institute/about.html</a><br>
<a href="https://artpool.hu/2015/press_conference.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://artpool.hu/2015/press_conference.html</a>
(press release about joining the Museum in 2015)</div>
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<div><a
href="https://www.artpool.hu/institute/artpool_40-conference.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.artpool.hu/institute/artpool_40-conference.html</a></div>
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<div><a
href="https://www.artpool.hu/2013/Artpool_book_en.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ARTPOOL - The
Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe<br>
(History of an active archive for producing, networking,
curating, and researching art since 1970)</a></div>
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<div><a
href="https://www.artpool.hu/2018/muhina_konyvismerteto_en.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">THE MUKHINA PROJECT<br>
INTERPRETATIONS OF BEING IN GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI’S OEUVRE</a></div>
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<div>Artpool Art Research Center<br>
Museum of Fine Arts - Central European Research Institute
for Art History <br>
H-1135 Budapest, Szabolcs u. 33., D. ép.<br>
tel.: +36-70-683-1872<br>
<a href="http://www.artpool.hu" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.artpool.hu</a><br>
<a href="http://facebook.com/artpool.budapest"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">facebook.com/artpool.budapest</a><br>
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