The selection from what is perhaps the world’s most complete collection of artists’ stamps, the Budapest Artpool Art Research Centre, will be shown in the Museum of Fine Arts in spring 2007. Visitors to this unusual exhibition can see around 500 artists’ stamps created by 250 artists in 25 countries.
An exhibition titled Bélyegképek/Stamp Images was held in the Museum of Fine Arts twenty years ago to present the Artpool collection of several thousand international artists’ stamps. The past twenty years have brought general recognition for the artist’s stamp and the Artpool collection has also grown steadily. As the 20th anniversary of the highly successful 1987 exhibition approaches this seems to be the time to bring this exciting, mainly graphic medium once again to the attention of the Hungarian and international public, showing artists’ stamps and the great variety of uses to which they are put and the role they play in international arts communication. The exhibition will be held in the prestigious setting of the Museum of Fine Arts and will also include documentation on the history of artists’ stamps. Thanks to ten years of classification work carried out by Artpool, besides key pieces in the history of artists’ stamps and a selection of stamps created between 1987 and 2007, visitors will also be able to make a virtual tour on the Internet of the entire exhibition held twenty years ago. This means that a visit can be started or continued on foot in the museum or at home in front on a PC.