2026. May 14. Thursday
Budapest Gallery Exhibition Hall - Budapest
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2005.08.28. - 2005.09.11.
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Sculptor, graphic artist, architect, arts philosopher. Pierre Székely was born in Budapest. He carved his first work, the 'Head of Peter' of white marble in a labor camp in 1944. The camp was his 'Arts Collage' and 'Polytechnic University'. Dallos Hanna was his master in Hungary. In 1946, he moved to Paris with his family. More than a hundred statues erected in public places at five continents mirror his giant oeuvre. His artistic development was greatly influenced by the summers he spent in Japan.
Most of his statues made for open air are in Sekigahara. In Sapporo a square was named after him in his lifetime. While he made a large number of graphics and statues he also designed houses, holiday centers and a Carmelite church with his characteristic round corners. Four of six of his architectural works are considered significant works of French architecture. The models are displayed in the Georges Pompidou Center. 'My architectural works are non other than habitable statues' he said. 'My black and white graphics are the shadows of my statues. The colored engravings are the dreams of my statues'.
In 1998, first his memoirs in the volume titled 'Forbidden Gods', then the oeuvre album in French and English was published in Budapest. The document movie of Bayer Ilona and Kálmán János titled 'Stone Dragon' was shot in Paris and Budapest. 'Pierre Székely is probably the most significant figure of sculpturing after Henry Moore' according to the arts historian Pierre Souchaud. Székely died in Paris in 2001 in his strongest spiritual period.
Pierre Székely's statues are erected in the garden of the house where he was born in Pécs, in front of the French institute in Budapest and on the Nagyvárad Square. The Museum of Fine Arts and Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs own many of his works. He was about to give a large collection of his works to the country of his birth but the negotiations were halted by his death.
The exhibition of the works of Pierre Székely in the Budapest Gallery's ward in Lajos Street is the first after the death after the artist. The audience may see works that have not been shown for long or not at all. Half of the material was borrowed from the Janus Pannonius Museum. The biggest collection of Pierre Székely's graphics in Hungary is our collection.
The film 'Stone Dragon' is continuously screened at the exhibition.
(Bayer Ilona)
Most of his statues made for open air are in Sekigahara. In Sapporo a square was named after him in his lifetime. While he made a large number of graphics and statues he also designed houses, holiday centers and a Carmelite church with his characteristic round corners. Four of six of his architectural works are considered significant works of French architecture. The models are displayed in the Georges Pompidou Center. 'My architectural works are non other than habitable statues' he said. 'My black and white graphics are the shadows of my statues. The colored engravings are the dreams of my statues'.
In 1998, first his memoirs in the volume titled 'Forbidden Gods', then the oeuvre album in French and English was published in Budapest. The document movie of Bayer Ilona and Kálmán János titled 'Stone Dragon' was shot in Paris and Budapest. 'Pierre Székely is probably the most significant figure of sculpturing after Henry Moore' according to the arts historian Pierre Souchaud. Székely died in Paris in 2001 in his strongest spiritual period.
Pierre Székely's statues are erected in the garden of the house where he was born in Pécs, in front of the French institute in Budapest and on the Nagyvárad Square. The Museum of Fine Arts and Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs own many of his works. He was about to give a large collection of his works to the country of his birth but the negotiations were halted by his death.
The exhibition of the works of Pierre Székely in the Budapest Gallery's ward in Lajos Street is the first after the death after the artist. The audience may see works that have not been shown for long or not at all. Half of the material was borrowed from the Janus Pannonius Museum. The biggest collection of Pierre Székely's graphics in Hungary is our collection.
The film 'Stone Dragon' is continuously screened at the exhibition.
(Bayer Ilona)
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