12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
18″H x 24″W x 7″D – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
For a long time I wanted to make a lyre mainly because of two things. One,Leonard Cohen’s song the “Hallelujah”. I have heard it many-many times with different interpreters as… “…there was a sacred cord that David plied and pleased the Lord…” and the second one is a Hungarian poem which ‘sings’ about the 500 Welsh bards sent to the stake by Edward I of England for failing to sing his praises at a banquet in Montgomery Castle.
This poem was written by Arany Janos in 1857. He was asked to write a poem of praise for the visit of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and that was the poem he written. I should not say it was not appreciated by the king.
I know the two are not even distantly related but I had to make ‘The Holy Lyre’ and this sculpture is the result.
If you ever worked with clay then you know how difficult could be to make a standing sculpture without an armature not to collapse into its footprint, but that is just the beginning. After it stands and finished… how would it dry? Would it crack then? So I put my faith into… I do not know what… and it dried just fine.
The bisque firing is mostly OK if the sculpture got that far, although placing it into the kiln needs very delicate handling. After glazing and place it into a hot electrical kiln is the most trying part. I was thinking a long time how to place it into the kiln. I could not handle the lyre with tongs because it would disintegrate under the pressing metal and also I would not even know where to grab it anyway. Finally I figured out how to do it.
I placed the sculpture on it back on a flat ceramic tile and together placed them into the kiln. I was listening, kind of waiting for some cracking sound after I closed the lid of the kiln as the temperature was rushing from approx. 1600F, when I placed the sculpture into the kiln, to the final temperature 2000F, but there was not any noise. The last difficult action was to take it out of the kiln and place it into sawdust. The hole firing took may be 45 minutes with the reduction at the end.
When I opened the lid of the reduction box and saw the unbroken finished piece I was overjoyed.
25″ tall – raku-fired ceramic – 2003 & 2017 SOLD
36″H x 66″W x 6″D – Raku Fired Ceramic – 2000 & 2017
I made sketches of this work 15 – 20 years ago. I was listening Bela Bartok’s “Cantata Profane”, a coral work based on an old Hungarian folk song. It is about an old hunter who did not teach his sons any occupations but rather to hunt for a miraculous deer stag. It turned out that his beloved sons became deers. I know that most of you will not understand the words of the coral work, but the emotions of this tale will come through in Bartok’s work.
36″H x 72″L x 6D” – Raku fired ceramic – 1995 – 2017
Almost all the religions say that life on earth will extinguish from fire falling from the sky. O yes, one can see that any given night all those shooting stars are the minuscule forerunners of the big one. So you can ask, why did I make this work? Do I want to scare you, or what…? No! I want to direct our attention to the fact that it is not a given that the human species will end up like that… If we would take this threat seriously, then we have “grown up” enough to prevent this celestial disaster… But will we wake up early enough before it is too late…?
33″ x 72″ – raku-fires ceramic – 1995 & 2017
12″ x 14″ – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
In a few weeks it will be the 20th anniversary of the APEC-97 meeting at Vancouver. During that meeting of the heads of the Asia-Pacific nations there was a major demonstration mainly against the Indonesia president, the dictator, Mr. Suharto. According Transparency International he was the most corrupt leader in modern history. He has stolen an estimated $15–35 billion during his rule. This was at that time a well known fact. Less than six months after the meeting Mr. Suharto had to resign due to demonstration against him in his own country.
During those days were when the Canadian democracy, the Charter of Rights, was suspended. When our Prime Minister, Mr. Chrétien, was asked, what had been his reaction to the inconsiderate pepper spraying of the demonstrators he had a shameful response: “For me, pepper, I put it on my plate.”
One of my old acquaintances was at that place and he blamed his failing eyesight to ‘Sergeant Pepper’-s barbaric act.
You are wondering why I’m talking and making some sculptural expression about that twenty years old event.
Because of my artistic philosophy, which is as follows:
More than any other form of human expression, art acts as a barometer indicating the quality of life of humanity in any given society. In my view, the artist’s dedication having been filtered through his emotional and mental make-up dictates his actions, finding expression in literature, painting, sculpting, music and other art forms. This artistic expression becomes fruitful and meaningful only if it has an objective significance for the viewer.
6″ x 6″ – Silver maple branch in wood box (installation) – 2017
We are not the only living organs that suffer from this illness…
6″ x 6″ – Silver maple branch in wood box (installation) – 2017
Approx 20″ dia – oxidation fired earthenware – 1992 (SOLD)
18″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 1992 (SOLD)
19″dia. – oxidation fired earthenware – 1980 (SOLD)
This was the first of many interpretation of my feeling re LA and the possible earthquake over there.
Plate tectonics will split that city in to the sea one of these days.
I had colour glass melted into the bowl.
There is a long story to the ‘Monkey’s Heart’. This is a seed of a bean that grows in the jungle of Brazil and the rainforest of some of the Caribbean islands. They are washed to sea by torrential rains and sometime travel to even as far as England floating many-many years in the sea. During my holidays on the Mayan Riviera I look for these seeds and polishing them up they become part of my jewelry making. According to native believes they have a ‘magic – healing’ effect on the owner. I just adore their durability and the their beautiful color.
There is a long story to the ‘Monkey’s Heart’. This is a seed of a bean that grows in the jungle of Brazil and the rainforest of some of the Caribbean islands. They are washed to sea by torrential rains and sometime travel to even as far as England floating many-many years in the sea. During my holidays on the Mayan Riviera I look for these seeds and polishing them up they become part of my jewelry making. According to native believes they have a ‘magic – healing’ effect on the owner. I just adore their durability and the their beautiful color.
18″ x 36″ – oil on canvas – 2017 (SOLD)
51″ x 21″ – oil on (3) canvas – 2017 The subject matter of this painting is slowly percolating in me for a long time.
I did not know how to convey my most inner feelings re our times.
Everything seems OK here where we are, but our doors are open and who knows what will ‘walk over’ through there.
You may not like this picture because though seems a very idyllic morning view but what is happening around the world one needs to be prepared.
No I am not going into politics but I have a question. How far would you go for your loved ones?
18″ – 2017
18″ x 36″ – oil on canvas – 2017 (SOLD)
19″ dia. -Rakufired ceramic – 2017 (SOLD)
19″dia. – rakufired ceramic – 2017 (SOLD)
19″ dia. – raku-fired ceramic – 2017
22″ x 53″ – oil on canvas – 2017
Any time I am out during the night I always look up to the sky and marvel the vastness of the Universe. Always this question come to my mind… are we alone… so in this painting I tried to capture this feeling. I wonder if you can relate to this matter.
