THE COLLECTIBLE POP

By the 1980s, pop visuals had permeated every aspect of life from children's toys to souvenirs. For Károly László and other collectors of the era there was no question of including primarily applied art or utilitarian objects in their collections in the same way as a painting or sculpture.

The pieces on display are typical of the "space age" of the 1950s: robots, spaceships and moon rovers, which together represent the space race and the belief in an imaginary future, mostly childlike. The - never realised - world of robots mainly in human form and the equally imaginary world of man conquering space are today - when the present would be the time for that imaginary future - smiling and thought-provoking visions of an era when pieces of applied art could be placed in a collection of fine art.

In the smallest room of the exhibition you can also see some special pieces of New York T-shirt art of the 1980s from the Károly László Collection.

The space game exhibition has been expanded with pieces from the private collection of Csaba Berényi, one of the curators of the exhibition.