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IMRE BAK: WORKS 1967-81

Past exhibition
13 February - 29 March 2019
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  • IMRE BAK, Stripes VII, 1967
    IMRE BAK, Stripes VII, 1967
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    IMRE BAK
    Stripes VII, 1967
    Acrylic on canvas
    140 x 150 cm
    55 1/8 x 59 inches
  • Blue 1969 Acrylic on canvas 150 x 200 cm

    Blue

    1969

    Acrylic on canvas

    150 x 200 cm

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    IMRE BAK

    Blue, 1969

    Acrylic on canvas

    150 x 200 cm

  • IMRE BAK, Feynes No.3, 1970
    IMRE BAK, Feynes No.3, 1970
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    IMRE BAK
    Feynes No.3, 1970
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 170 cm
    51 1/8 x 66 7/8 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Labyrinth, 1979
    IMRE BAK, Labyrinth, 1979
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    IMRE BAK
    Labyrinth, 1979
    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 150 cm
    59 x 59 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Composition, 1967
    IMRE BAK, Composition, 1967
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    IMRE BAK
    Composition, 1967
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 120 cm
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Black and White No. X, 1981
    IMRE BAK, Black and White No. X, 1981
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    IMRE BAK
    Black and White No. X, 1981
    Acrylic on canvas
    150 x 150 cm
    59 x 59 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Composition, 1970
    IMRE BAK, Composition, 1970
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    IMRE BAK
    Composition, 1970
    Acrylic on canvas
    130 x 130 cm
    51 1/8 x 51 1/8 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Green-Purple-Black, 1968
    IMRE BAK, Green-Purple-Black, 1968
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    IMRE BAK
    Green-Purple-Black, 1968
    Acrylic on canvas
    120 x 150 cm
    47 1/4 x 59 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Square-Circle-Cross II, 1977
    IMRE BAK, Square-Circle-Cross II, 1977
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    IMRE BAK
    Square-Circle-Cross II, 1977
    Ink and tempera on paper
    28 x 28 cm
    11 x 11 inches
  • IMRE BAK, Circle-Cross-Triangle, 1977
    IMRE BAK, Circle-Cross-Triangle, 1977
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    IMRE BAK
    Circle-Cross-Triangle, 1977
    Ink and tempera on paper
    32 x 28 cm
    12 5/8 x 11 inches
Overview
Imre Bak, Fachwerk, 1971
Imre Bak, Fachwerk, 1971

Imre Bak (b. 1939 Budapest, Hungary) was involved in the creation and development of two leading Hungarian neo-avant-garde groups of the second half of the Twentieth century; Iparterv and Budapesti műhely. Part of the group of young ‘self-educated’ Hungarian contemporary artists from the 1960s, Bak departed from the drab browns and greys of Hungarian realism and was strongly inspired by the vivid palette of Impressionism and the forms of Cubism.

 

In 1962 Bak travelled to Moscow and St Petersburg, where he saw for the first time works by Matisse, Picasso, Léger and Kandinski. Bak became increasingly attracted to geometrical abstract and hard edge painting. Inspired by the German Concretists, the Signal artists, Pop Art and American Minimalism, Bak focused on non-figurative painting, exploring both strong, pure colour and strictly structured, sharp forms and lines in his works.  By fusing the universal symbolism of European and Central American cultures with some of the lessons he drew from conceptual art, Imre Bak fashioned a unique form of emblematic representation in his works from the 1970s.

 

Imre Bak has exhibited widely, in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and the USA since 1966, and his works are in numerous public collections, including Tate Modern, London, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, MUMOK, Vienna, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.

 

The exhibition catalogue features an interview with Imre Bak conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2018.

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