Beke László (szerk.): Instruktiv + Inter + Konkret. Művészet Malom Szentendre, 21. November - 26. Januar 2015 (Sankt Augustin, 2014)

6. István Ézsiás

Symposium - Summary

1. Inspiration from modern industry’s new shaping technologies was effective from the start of my career. My theoretical and practical work steeped in the natural sciences at college and my museum job did much to confirm my artistic creed.

2. I organized several symposiums in the 70's and 80's, a period when Hungarian contemporary art attempted to close up to modern art at large, a process that I vehemently supported.

Here is a list of the symposiums: Veszprém, FMS ■ Balatonfűzfő, plexi-acryl ■ Ajka, aluminium ■ Hubertlak, woodcarving by hand and machinery ■ Győr, modern steel sculptures with German artists invited from Duisburg, Sindelfingen, Gelsenkirchen, Erfurt.

3. I attended the Tokaj summer free schools and artists’ encounters led by Tibor Csiky as a sculptor; also, the modern graphic art free schools led by Attila Joláthy, and the summer exercises in music, abstraction, and visual art led by Ferenc Lantos as well as the Szerencs international youth free schools led by János Fajó providing a decisive intellectual background to my generation of Hungarian artists.

4. My international encounters and connections to modern art were through participation and contacts in London, Duisburg, Paris, La Plata, Rome, Vilnius, Brasov, Milan, Naples and Lucenec.

5. Steel sculptures, constructive works for sculpture parks in Győr, Veszprém, Budapest-Csepel, Dunaszerdahely, Olaszliszka, etc.

6. Cultivating a progressive intellectual heritage by founding permanent museum collections, galleries and exhibition spaces on a voluntary basis at Budapest-Óbudai University’s Bánki Donát Universitas Gallery - Art Industriel; East European Modern Gallery and International Sculpture Park as well as a House of Spectacles in History and Ethnography, both in Olaszliszka, Hungary.

One-man shows set within an international context at home and abroad. Scholarship in Rome.

Shows in Italy, Latin-America and elsewhere, e.g. William Fred, New York; Madi Museum - Dallas;

Musée de Arte Contemporaneo; Francisco Narvaez - Porlamar, Isla Margarita; Graphicarte Gallery- Caracas; Emilia Suciu Galerie

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