Corpus

Contemporary Art

1988

János Megyik
Hungarian, born 1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: János Megyik
Title: Corpus
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1988
Medium: Larch
Dimensions: 210 × 178 × 63 cm (82 1/2 × 70 × 25 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Roswitha and Konstantin Kleffel
Reference Number: 2021.272

Dieter Ronte and Péter Esterházy, János Megyik: Holzkonstuktion, Fotogramme, Zeichnungen/ János Megyik: Fakonstrukciók, Fotogramok, Rajok, exh. cat. (Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst, 1988), 26 (ill.), 27 (ill).
Péter Esterházy, “A csataképfestő. Megyik János szobrairól/The Battle Painter. On Sculptures of János Megyik,” Alföld, 40, no. 1 (January 1989), inner cover (ill.), 24–26 (ill.).
Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine, Kunst Europa: 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern, exh. cat. (Mainz: H. Schmidt, 1991), 6.22, 6.23, cat. 2 (color ill.).
Andrási Gábor: “Festői térkísérletek–A perspektíva változásai Megyik János kiállításáról és Karátson Gábor könyvéről/Painterly Space Experiments-the Changes of Prespective,” Új művészet, 5, no. 5 (May, 1994), 19–2.
Jan Sekal, ed., REVUE SVETOVEJ LITERATÚRY, 2 (2010), 69 (ill.).
Györgyi Imre, ed., Megyik János: A kép tere/János Megyik: The Space of the Image, exh. cat. (Budapest: Ludwig Museum–Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2012), 164-167, cat. 93 (color ills.), 302.

Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst/Palais Liechtenstein, János Megyik: Holzkonstuktion, Fotogramme, Zeichnungen, Sept., 9–Nov. 6, 1988, no cat. no; Budapest, Mücsarnok Kusnthalle, as János Megyik: Fakonstrukciók, Fotogramok, Rajok, Dec. 9, 1988–Jan. 1, 1989.
Kunstverain Bremen and GAK, Kunst, Europa:Ungarn. 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 20 Ländern, June 23–July 21, 1991, cat. 2.
Budapest, Ludwig Museum–Museum of Contemporary Art, János Megyik: The Space of the Image, Mar. 8–June 10, 2012, cat. 93.
The Art Institute of Chicago, János Megyik Photograms, Feb. 3-July 8, 2024, no cat.

The Artist; sold to Roswitha and Konstantin (died 2021) Kleffel, Hamburg, September, 1991 [email from János Megyik, Nov. 24, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 9, 2021.

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