Lars Müller publishers of Zurich has released the second printing of the long-sold-out English edition of Salgo Trust curator Oliver Botar’s book “Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts,” originally published in 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin. While errors were corrected and a few illustrations were replaced with higher-definition image files, the text was left as is. This this is not a second edition, but rather a second printing. This important event in the history of the Salgo Trust-Bauhaus Archiv publication was meant to address the high cost of the book on the antiquarian booksellers’ market.

Major donations of paintings, works on paper and photographs by Ágost Canzi, Sándor Bortnyik, Béla Kádár, André Kertész, Béla Kondor, Károly Markó Sr., Gyula Marosán, János Máttis Teutsch Jr., Mihály Munkácsy, József Rippl-Rónai, Dénes Rónai, Hugó Scheiber, Pál Szinyei Merse, and Béla Uitz were recently made to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum. In addition, an endowment was established at the Art Institute of Chicago to support the study and exhibition of art from the region of former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Salgo Trust for Education is proud to co-sponsor this exhibition, the only major exhibition in Canada to celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus, the legendary German design school. Installed in the School of Art Gallery of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, the show offers insight into the school’s influence on Canadian architecture, furniture design, graphic design, art and pedagogy. It documents how it was Bauhaus alumni fleeing Europe to the United States before and during WWII such as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, that trained the Canadians who brought Bauhaus ideas back with them to Canada, and to the University of Manitoba School of Architecture in particular. This show demonstrates that it was mainly via the University of Manitoba that Bauhaus architectural and pedagogical concepts spread throughout Canada. Salgo Trust Curator Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar is curator of this exhibition, and the Trust lent a number of works related to Hungarian Bauhäusler László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer. The exhibition opened 13 February 2020 before being closed due to the pandemic on March 14th. While the exhibition never reopened, a video tour was recorded with the curator and posted to the School of Art Gallery’s YouTube channel, and a virtual version of the show is in preparation.