János Fajó

(1937, Orosháza - 2018 Budapest)

About the Artist
His works are easily recognizable, “I do not have a bigger desire than creating order, match and unite, to present all kinds of symbioses” – he said in 1979, as his sculptures, paintings and serigraphy’s point the inexhaustibility of the optical world in a very particular manner. His works are solid statements, genuine blueprints of spatial laws and contexts. By shifting basic shapes and forms, he creates symmetry, asymmetry and endless variations of motion, rhythm and dynamism.
Fajó has always kept his quiet dialogue with the international modernist abstraction. He was not only a pupil, but a friend of Lajos Kassák, whose bed remains in Fajó’s atelier, and whose artistic practice determined Fajó’s art.  He collaborated with Victor Vasarely on numerous silk screen prints and object-serigraphy, and was also in close connection with the founder of the rational and “cold” concrete art, the swiss Max Bill. For both Bill and Fajó, parallel to making paintings and sculptures, theory and teaching played fundamental roles in their artistic practices.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020     
Silkscreens, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
A Gép Forog..., Ybl Creative House Buda, Budapest, Hungary

2018     
Black and White, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2014     
Vasarely, Kassák, Fajó, Galerie Remixx, Graz, Austria

2013     
Werke Konkreter Kunst, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Freiburg, Germany

2012     
Graf und Schelble, Basel, Switzerland

2011     
Selection of an oeuvre, Munkácsy Mihály Museum, Békéscsaba, Hungary

2009     
Reliefs and paintings, Galeria Komart, Bratislava, Slovakia

2008     
Rings in three dimensions, Mono Gallery, Budapest

2007     
Ellipses, Gallery of Orosháza, Orosháza, Hungary
Die Reine Form, Shreier und von Metternich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Droucart, Paris, France
Galerie Emilia Sucu, Ettlingen, Germany

2005     
Galerie Graf und Schelble, Basel, Switzerland

1994     
Gouache, Grafiken, Objekte, Bilderhaus Bornemann, Lübeck, Germany

1992     
Bilder, Objekte, Grafiken, Graf und Schelble Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

1991     
Farben und Formen. Malerei, Grafik, Plastiken, Haus der Ungarischen Kultur, Berlin, Germany

1990     
Retrospective exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1988     
Ost-West Galerie (with Max Bill), Zürich, Switzerland
Gouachen, Serigrafien, Galerie Eremitage, Berlin, Germany

1985     
Centro Documentazione Artein, Rom, Italy

1971     
Galerie Minimax, Basel, Switzerland

1968     
Fényes Adolf room, Budapest, Hungary
Selected Group Exhibitons
2017    
Abstract Hungary, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, Austria

2016    
Museum of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary

2014    
Inner garden, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2013    
Karctű és monitor, Csók István Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

2012    
Colour/Light/Moving, Laczkó Dezső Museum, Veszprém, Hungary

2010    
Doyenek, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2008    
Auevres Madi, Madi-Art Gallery, Barbizon, France

2007    
Praguebiennale 3, Karlín Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

2005    
20 Plenairs im Zeichen der Geometrie, Miejska Galeria Sztuki w Lodzi, Poland

2003    
Kassák and MADI in Hungary, Institut hongrois de Paris, Paris, France

2002    
Noé szövetsége, Jewish Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2001    
Hungarian Contemporary Art, Art Hall, Tallin, Lithuania

2000    
The 90’s II. – Hungarian contemporary art, Museum of Győr, Győr, Hungary

1997    
Geo.Grafia – Geometrica, National Slovak Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Jenseits von Kunst, Neue Galeria, Graz, Austria

1996    
Beyond the art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Hommage a Kassák, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1995    
Konkrete Kunst International, Projekt 30x30, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Position, hungarian sculpture, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Free geometry, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1994    
Projekt 30x30, Konkrete Kunst International, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
The new purchases of the Modern Hungarian Museum, Csontváry Museum, Pécs, Hungary
The art of the 80’s, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Free geometry in the abstract – MADI, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1992    
Kunst, Europa – Ungarn, 63 deutsche Kunstverein zeigen Kunst aus 20 Landern, Bremen, Germany

1989    
Hungarian constructivism, Ungarische Institut, Berlin, Germany
Symmetry and assymetry, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1987    
Hungarian art of the XX. century, old and new avantgarde, Csók István Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

1982    
White – Black, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1980    
Ungarske Konstruktivister, Kunstmuseum Göteborg, Sweden
Kunstmuseum Aalborg, Finnland     
Ungarsk Konstruktivisme, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Noerdjylands, Denmark
Kunst in socialistischen Staaten, Ungarische VR, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
La biennale di Venezia 1980 – Ungheria, Venice, Italy

1979    
Ungarische Konstruktive Kunst, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ungarische Konstruktivistische Kunst 1920-77, Kunstverein, München, Germany

1977    
Hungarian Art, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

1976    
Zehn Jahre Internationale Malerwochen in Steiermark, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria

1975    
1. Grafika Creativa Suomi, Alvar Aalto Museo, Jyvaskyla, Finnland
Neue Ungarische Konstruktivisten, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

1974    
Ungarishe Kunst ’74, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

1973    
Werke der VIII. Internationalen Malerwochen in der Steiermark, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Aus Der Sammlung Jürgen Weichardt, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany

1971    
New works, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1970    
Moving ’70, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, Hungary

1969    
Hommage a Victor Vasarely, Fészek Club, Budapest
Hungarian art 1945-1969, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1968    
In memoriam Kassák, István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Csabai festők, Jubileum exhibition, Munkácsy Mihály exhibition, Békéscsaba, Hungary

1965    
X. Hungarian Fine Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

1964     
Assotiation of Young Artists V. exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1963    
Assotiation of Young Artists IV. exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1962    
IX. Hungarian Fine Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Prizes
1985 
Munkácsy-prize

2008 
Kossuth-prize
Works in Public Collections
Hungarian:

Déri Múzeum, Debrecen
Hermann Ottó Múzeum, Miskolc
Janus Pannonius Múzeum, Pécs
Kalocsai Városi Képzőművészeti Gyűjtemény
Kassák Emlékmúzeum, Budapest
Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
MODEM, Debrecen
Modern Magyar Képtár, Pécs
Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba
Nemzeti Modern Múzeum, Hajdúszoboszló
Szombathelyi Képtár
Városi Múzeum, Paks
Vay Ádám Múzeum, Vaja
Xantus János Múzeum, Győr
Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Győr

International:

Albertina, Wien
Burgenlandische Museum, Eisenstadt
Galerie Johanneum, Graz
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz
Haus Konkrete, Zürich
Foundation Leschot, Bern
Museum-Sammlung Grether, Basel
Schubladen Museum, Zürich
Das Progressive Kunstmuseum, Basel
Konkrete Kunst, Würtzburg
König-Brauerei, Duisburg
Kunstmuseum, Bochum
Sammlung Suiss Credit, Frankfurt
Studio Binder, Ingolstadt
Wilhelm Morgner Haus, Soest
Kleines Museum, Berlin
Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren
Konkrete und Konstruktive Stifftung, Freiburg
Musée MADI, Mauberge
Geometrische Kunst Centrum, Napoli
Linee della Scultura, Padova
MADI Museum, Bologna
Iniziativa D’Arte e Musei, Pieve di Centro
Civica Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Milano
Moderne Museum, Moscow
Satorusato Museum, Japan
Nationale Galerie Poznan
Regional Museum, Chelm
Geometric MADI Museum, Dallas



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