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Kunsthalle - Budapest
The gallery
Address: 1146, Budapest Dózsa György út 37.
Phone number: (1) 460-7000, (1) 363-2671
Opening hours: Tue-Wed 10-18, Thu 12-20, Fri-Sun 10-18
The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2015.11.04. - 2016.01.31.
temporary exhibition
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Museum tickets, service costs:
Ticket for adults
1200 HUF
Ticket for adults
(valid for the Kunsthalle and the Ernst Museum)
1400 HUF
Group ticket for adults
(from over 10 people)
800 HUF
/ capita
Ticket for students
(EU citizens from the age of 6 to 26 )
600 HUF
Ticket for students
(valid for the Kunsthalle and the Ernst Museum, 6-26 years of age)
700 HUF
Group ticket for students
(from over 10 people)
400 HUF
/ capita
Ticket for pensioners
(valid for the Kunsthalle and the Ernst Museum, 62-70 years of age)
700 HUF
Ticket for pensioners
(EU citizens from the age of 62 to 70)
600 HUF
Ticket for families
(1 adults + 2 children)
1800 HUF
/ family
Ticket for families
(2 adults + 2 children)
2400 HUF
/ family
Lajos Csertő is the classic polyhistor for our age. He has been living and working in his Dunaújváros studio far from the maddening crowd for many decades, experimenting with newer and newer artforms with the same enthusiasm and curiosity as when he was in this twenties. He uses different metals, porcelain, alabaster and wood for his works and most of his public space art production is made of glass. Csertő’s deep familiarity with different source materials and his desire for innovation is seen best in his sculpture and architectural production. His expertise and engineering skills are evident in the steel structures of the Hungarian Pavilion in Seville, and in the churches of Százhalombatta and Paks. Beside public statues, he also produces Indian semi-precious stone altars, blown-glass small sculptures, ceramic objects and wooden statuettes.

His interest is focused on the material itself and on the creative process of production during which matter is informed – as the form of a statue is freed from the granite or the blown glass alters and acquires its form.

Beside his ceramics, small sculpture and scale models of buildings, his „inventions” and project designs will be given prominence at the exhibit. Their common denominator is the aspiration to increase the collective quality of life. One of his most interesting plans concerns the artificial lakes of a projected Duna-Tisza canal. The plan charts the possibilities to develop the neglected environment from Budapest to Kecskemét.

Lajos Csertő’s extensive production practices and the distinctive ambiance of his workshop has always attracted architecture and sculpture students who arrive for internship from the „Travelling School” of the Kós Károly Association and from the University of Applied Arts and Design. Former students praise his masterly skills, his amazing diligence and humanity. In the words of his friend and collaborator, Imre Makovecz: „... in the true sense of the word, he is never an amateur, always a master.”

The exhibition aims to present the legendary workshop of Lajos Csertő, to present his creative process and the diversity which has become the staple of his masterly work.