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By Nigar Orujova

Yarat Contemporary Art Space is inviting all art devotees to attend a lecture and presentation by an established curator and art critic from Budapest, Hungary.

Zsolt Petranyi, Head of the Section of Contemporary Arts at Hungarian National Gallery, will give his presentation at the International Mugam Center at 18:00 on March 3.

Called "What is Success? - Hungarian success projects abroad, contemporary art seen from the inside and outside", the presentation will focus on different internationally successful projects related to Hungary.

The free lecture will be delivered in English with Azerbaijani translation.

The lecturer will speak about the ACAX organization that helps international curators and artists, and analyze how the fall of the iron curtain created an interest towards the region.

The lecture will also address the feeling of frustration, the too- slow development of the local market, the experience of participating in international art fairs, the shadow of the "big" avant-garde generation from the 60's, and the negative effect of the right wing government on culture in Hungary.

The audience will have a chance to see some works of the Hungarian Pavilion in the Venice Biennial which had an aftereffect, as well as other contributions to other Biennials.

A glance at the project of the Little Warsaw group, the Body of Nefertiti in Venice in 2003, Andreas Fogarasi in 2007, Istvan Csakanys participation on the Documenta 2012, Adam Kokesh on the Istambul Biennial last year, Attila Csorgo on the last Sydney Biennial, or Tamas Kaszas on the next one, will make the lecture more attractive.