The Budapest Gallery/ Kiscell Museum organize the Tamás Vígh oeuvre exhibition in the Oratory and Church of the Kiscell Museum.

The exhibition focuses on presenting monumental works of art, a statue by Pál Vásárhelyi that is in the casting workshop in Karcag and will be erected in Tiszadob as well as four statues of diggers.

At the very beginning of 1967, the Headquarters of Water Management commissioned Tamás Vígh to design a Pál Vásárhelyi statue and a statue to commemorate the regulation of the River Tisza to be erected in Tiszadob It was followed by a year-long so-called jurying and crabbing which ended in the commissioners not buying the artworks the architects Tamás Vígh and Jenő Bálint designed. However, the commissioners set up another statue in Tiszadob.

The original design has lived its own life in the form of small statues ever since. All five figures have been shown at the National Gallery while the portrait of Vásárhelyi was shown at varied exhibitions. What the viewers kept on wondering about is what was the part the contemporary officials could not accept. However, the work of art was never shown together completely, only in part. The complete composition remained a design. The statue composition, a vertically cut hill with four large stone digger figures at the bottom and the bronze figure of Vásárhelyi in the middle was to be lost for good.

Tamás Vígh met a strange situation recently. He had to decide if he wanted to do the work he was planning to do forty years before. The statue he was to do was very important for Vígh. He as an artist has developed harmonically; this is why it was possible to adopt his thoughts forty years ago to the present. When he designs a memorial statue, he designs a monumental work. He avoids the fake shepherd but heightens his topic with spirituality.

The five figures, the bronze double life-size Vásárhelyi and the four diggers, are now shown in Budapest. The display will travel on to Tiszalök to the Showing Centre.