Farkas Exhibit Opens in GC Art Gallery

The Graduate Center unveiled the work of pathbreaking Hungarian Modernist painter István Farkas September 19 in the Art Gallery. It is the first full-scale retrospective of Farkas? work ever to be shown in the United States.

Farkas, a prominent École de Paris painter during the period between the two world wars, returned to Budapest in 1932 and perished at Auschwitz in 1944. His work has been compared with that of Matisse, but his vocabulary is unique—a deeply personal and symbolic visual language, dream-like (and nightmare-like), forged during a momentous period of world history. The artist depicts a mysterious universe, occupied by ghostly figures and hostile objects which can be interpreted both as meditations on the frailty of human existence and premonitions of his own untimely death.

The exhibition continues through November 5. The Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 12 noon to 6 p.m.

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