The 243rd World’s largest annual open submission of contemporary artwork is on going. With the public in awe of the exhibition containing not only great works by famed artists such as Antony Gormley and Jenny Saville, hundreds of pieces by up and coming artists are being publicized in the heart of Mayfair. So if you have some money to invest in some art work then I would advise heading to the Royal Academy of Art where editions of the works are being sold at an alarming rate.

‘Turner Price’ winner Gillian Wearing,
2011 Self Portrait as my mother Jean Gregory

written by Ben Z. Fern

James Howard, newly reconstructed messages taking spam emails, using screen printing.

However it isn’t only the Summer Exhibition creating a delirium around the London art scene currently, it is the Eyewitness exhibition too. This compact yet intensely interesting look through the Hungarian photography of the 20th Century is exhilarating. With work by Brassai, Capa, Kertesz, Moholy-Nagy and Munkacsi the work is extremely current if not slightly forward thinking of where we are today.

Hungarian Photographer Martin Munkacsi

These talented photographers began in Hungary the border between the East and the West, and through crossing countries and continents defined modern photographic genres around the globe. These five photographer’s work in the exhibition illustrates the social and cultural evolution of their homeland between 1914 and 1989.

In the early 20th Century journalism was integral within the Hungarian society, with the large amount of coffee shops, debates within them and the picture magazines which were seen as a cultural illustrated newspapers of the time.
Not only could the people of the early 20th century appreciate the art work these men were creating but also saw it instantly as a sign of the time, something with which the present day society are still trying to fully initiate.

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