Párhuzamos Kronológiák / Parallel Chronologies

I believe that the pre-supposition that “the majority of progressive events took place in the grey zone of non-official exhibition spaces” in the approach to the period under discussion results in a “one-sided” picture. The exhibitions that wanted to prove the “liberalism” of official cultural policy and state book publication of a similar vein formed and defined the picture of the era jointly and in parallel with the manifestations of the non-official scene. In everyday life and reality, these two spheres were also separate from each other, while simultaneously representing a common “available” cultural space, and allowing for certain passages (e.g., the exhibitions in the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle of "avant-garde" artists, and their public and mural commissions from the seventies). For this reason, my personal list contains also “official” events and from my point of view, books of key importance, as well.