The visit to the Várfok Gallery was a good example of contemporary gallery experience in Hungary, which has already a history reaching back to the Hungarian systemchange.
The Várfok Gallery works basically with artists on contract and establishes for them their reputation, manages their career, creates a basis for their works where they can reach public and last but not least helps to market these works.
As for exhibiting the artworks, it is important to distinguish between one man and joint exhibition, here at Várfok we mostly talk about joint exhibitions, where several artists submit their works for a given topic and they go on show, or the gallery team discovers similar motifs, themes in the artworks and thus they are exhibited together at one show. An exhibit lasts usually for 1-2month long and all the works are for sale.
The preferred mediums are: paintings, photographs, sculptures and everything which is basically not video. On a simple reason because video art is quite an undiscovered area on the Hungarian art market and the cost of equipment is just not profitable to make the show...
The paintings are catalogised in a computerised data base and stored stricktly to the rules of the gallery.
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