On September 15, 2021, Victor Vasarely’s renovated collage “Barson” was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Victor Vasarely created his work “Barson” in 1967, which ranks among the 10 most valuable works in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art. The work came into the possession of the Museum's legal predecessor after the artist's 1968 major exhibition in Zagreb. Ambassador Dr. Csaba Demcsák said at the opening that a significant part of the artist's oeuvre can be viewed in Budapest and Pécs. Vasarely became really famous in Hungary when his exhibition of oeuvres opened in the Art Gallery in 1969, which was surrounded by huge interest, and the number of visitors reached one hundred thousand. The abstraction represented by Vasarely at that time was taboo, so the exhibition had a huge impact on the generation of Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists, and modern, abstract fine art aspirations also gained civil rights for the contemporary communist system.
