1971 - Parallel Nonsynchronism

The book is published in relation to the eponymous joint exhibition at of Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery, which examined the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary, during the so-called Kádár era (1957–1989). The exhibition presented two micro-histories, two contemporaneous bodies of artworks that were made around 1971. One of the groups comprises works by artists who adapted to the demands of Socialist Realism in the 1950s, and were able to modernize their art following the thaw of cultural policy after 1956 (Endre Domanovszky, Gyula Hincz, József Somogyi, Imre Kerényi). The other belongs to a new generation of avant-garde artists and to the formation of the underground scene that was underway during these years.