Curator: Mária Árvai
“Morphism is that we are no longer either surrealists or tachists or informalists or figurative or geometric, but all of them, but at least two of them together.“
(Quote from a letter written by Imre Pán in 1966)
Gábor Mezei (1935) is an interior designer, art collector, and painter. He inherited a significant part of his collection from his father, Imre Pán (1904-1972). The exhibition presents a selection from this part of his collection, including abstract, abstract expressionist, and surrealist figurative drawings and prints by artists such as Max ERNST, Marcel JEAN, CORNEILLE, Jacques DOUCET, Marcelle CAHN, René BERTHOLO, Christine BOUMEESTER, Eva LANDORI and Gonçalo DUARTE. The rich and diverse material offers an insight into the international art world of Paris in the 1960s. Anna MARK, who left Hungary in 1957, also arrived in this environment. A selection of her early surrealist drawings is included in the exhibition.
After Imre Pán’s death, some of the material collected in Paris – in many cases works by the same artists – remained with his daughter Sophie Pán. This latter was the subject of an exhibition in Paris in the spring of 2024 at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff entitled Imre Pán, une histoire artistique et éditoriale européenne dans le Paris des années 1960.