Tradition and change - Javanese wayang puppets and contemporary creations of József Gaál

The exhibition titled Tradition and Change at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts reinterpreted wayang, one of the best-known art forms of the Indonesian archipelago, with the help of the works of visual artist József Gaál. Along with the works of József Gaál, Ernő Zboray's wayang puppets collected in West Java in the 1920s from the collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of East Asian Art, which were first shown to the public in 1931 in the Hopp Museum, were exhibited. From November 2013, about a hundred art objects were presented, most of them surviving wayang puppets in Ernő Zboray's collection - as well as József Gaál's contemporary wayang inspirations: busts, masks and "puppets".