Tamas Cseh, who was born eighty years ago, is commemorated in the Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM) exhibition from today under the title Situation reports.
A legacy becomes a legacy when it receives an exhibition in a museum - reminded the general director of the PIM at the opening of the exhibition last night. Demeter Szilárd highlighted: the special feature of the memorial exhibition is that it is the children of its co-curators, Tamás Cseh Bori and Balázs Csengey, as well as one of the songwriter-singer's co-creators, poet and writer Dénes Csengey, who turned to their parents' oeuvre with rare humility and attention.
Director László Bérczes, the author of the Tamás Cseh interview book, emphasized that the key concept of Tamás Cseh's oeuvre is freedom. He added that the PIM exhibition is not satisfied with big words, but instead guides the visitor objectively through the songwriter's work.
Curators have found "fantastic treasures": writings, drawings, photos and objects that have a past
- László Bérczes drew attention to, among other things, Tamás Cseh's Polish hitchhiker's card, his guitar given to him by János Baksa-Soós, his personal belongings kept on his desk, and countless personal moments captured in the photos.
Wherever the visitor looks in the exhibition, he meets Tamas Cseh
he emphasized.
Regarding the title of the exhibition, Balázs Csengey said that in the 1970s Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi often referred to their common songs as situation reports.
The purpose of the exhibition is to show how the song genre "emerged" in the life of Tamás Cseh, who started out as an art teacher, who "pushed" him to the stage even before he met Géza Bereményi, and how his life's work unfolded.
The starting point for all of this was the legacy of Tamás Cseh, Balázs Csengey said, adding, however, that the exhibition about the songwriter will of course not lack multimedia units.
The Tamás Cseh exhibition of the Petőfi Literary Museum can be visited until January 28, 2024.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Image: Tamás Kovács (director László Bérczes, author of the book on Tamás Cseh ((b) and Demeter Szilárd, general director of the Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM))
