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CUTTING EDGE: HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARY GLASS

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ZOLTAN BOHUS PETER BORKOVICS PETER BOTOS ISTVAN CZEBE GYORGY GASPAR LASZLO HEFTER ZSUZSANNA KORODI MARIA LUGOSSY LASZLO LUKACSI MIHALY MELCHER BALAZS SIPOS AGNES SMETANA MARGIT M. TOTH DORA VARGA ZSUZSA VIDA HAJNALKA VIRAG

Cutting - Edge: Hungarian Contemporary Glass

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ZOLTAN BOHUS b.1941

Zoltan Bohus studied painting at the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, Budapest from 1961-1966 and glass design from 1963 - 1966.

Statement: “Almost fifty years ago I graduated from the painting department. Then I taught glass design for forty-four years, which I really liked.

Recently, the old things are coming back, and again I am interested in the colours. Sometimes I meditate on whether that I am creating is picture or statue. How do you see?” Zoltan Bohus, 2015.

Selected Awards: Kossuth Prize, Hungary, 2014 International Glass Exhibition, SNAI, Troyes, France, 1991 Public Collections include: Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y. USA The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany, Stadt Felbach, Felbach, Germany Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Immenhausen, Hamburg, Germany Kunstammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany Sussmuth Museum, Immenhausen, Germany Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA Zoltan Bohus in his studio

Layers, Zoltan Bohus, 2014, materials/technique, 40 x 20 x 20cms

PETER BORKOVICS b.1971

Peter Borkovics graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design in 1994 before completing a Masters Degree in 1995. He is currently Doctor of the Uberal Arts School at the Hungarian University of Craft and Design.

“Glass –it’ a notion…

It was born into our real world from the unattainable infinity of our imagination. Objectivized.

Fragile message between the crystalclear depth of our mind and the trangible, mortal world.

It is the light that gives a soul to the glass, and it is the light that takes it back among the dreams of our closed eyelids’ shadow.

Metal testifies the preference of creative man, it is only struktural, secondary element with glass.

Glass hides something spiritual in its material, our task is just to pull the cork out of the bottle.”

Peter Borkovics, 2015 Selected Awards: International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Honorable Mention award, Japan, 2013 42nd Annual International Glass Invitational Award Winners” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Michigan, USA, 2014 Public Collections include: National Glass Collection Bárdudvarnok, ( Mária Goszthony Fundation) –” Zebrashell “ Museum of Applied Art, Budapest –” Gate “ Museum of Applied Art, Budapest –” Bumble Bee standing lamp “ Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár, –” Green Screen Diatréta “ Városi Museum, Veszprém, –”Yellow Diatréta “

Peter Borkovics in his studio

Peter Borkovics Image of Work

Title, year, technique/materials, dimensions

PETER BOTOS b.1945 Peter Botos education info.

“Statement” Peter Botos

Selected Awards:

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Peter Botos in his studio

Title, year, cut and polished optical glass technique/materials, dimensions

ISTVAN CZEBE b.1949

Istvan Czebe graduated as a glass designer from the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design in 1992 where he also obtained his Master’s diploma in 1996.

“Statement” Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Istvan Czebe in his studio

Istvan Czebe Image of Work

Sitting Bull, Istvan Czebe, year, technique/materials, 73 x 43 x 12cms

GYORGY GASPAR b.1976

Education info “Statement”

Selected Awards: IV. International Triennal of Silicate Arts, Special Award, 2014 International Glass Exhibition Kanazawa, selected, 2013 Public Collections include: Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts, Kecskemét, Hungary Mudac Museum, Lousanne, Switzerland Sir Elton John Art Collection, Great Britain KOGART, Budapest, Hungary Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár, Hungary Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary Museum Fascinacion Glas-Kunst, Öhringen, Germany

Gyorgy Gaspar Image of Work

Title, year, technique/materials, dimensions

LASZLO HEFTER b.1943/1945?

Laslo Hefter studied at the Hungarian University of Crafts & Design, Budapest from 1970-1975.

“Statement”

Selected Awards: Szent László Prize, 2011 Grand prize of Gyor-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary, 2004 For the art of Gyor, Hungary, 2000 For the culture of Gyor, Hungary, 1998 Public Collections include: Laczkó Dezs, Museum, Veszprém, Hungary City Art Museum, Gyor, Hungary Xantus János Museum, Gyor, Hungary Muesum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Labyrinth, Laszlo Hefter, 2012, coloured, stained lead glass, 67 x 46 cms

ZSUZSANNA KORODI b.1984

Zsuzsanna Korodi studied at the National College of Arts and Design in Dublin in 2009 and then completed her Masters at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design from 2005-2010.

“Statement”

Selected Awards: Diploma – Rectors Prize, 2010 Erasmus Scholarship - National Collage of Art and Design Dublin, 2009 Public Collections include: Hefter Glass Gallery, Pannonhalma, Hungary

Harey 1, Zsuzsanna Korodi, 2014, laminated, polished glass with digital print, 50 x 50 cms

MARIA LUGOSSY b.

Biog/education info

Statement

Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Lilit, Maria Lugossy, 2008, layered sandblasted and polished glass with bronze, 45 x 34 x 14 cms

LASZLO LUKACSI B.

Biog/education info

Statement

Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Fan, Laszlo Lukacsi, 2014, layered sheet glass and mirrors, 13 x 25 cms

MIHALY MELCHER B.

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Title, 2015, technique/materials, dimensions

BALAZS SIPOS b. 1979

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Women with Apple, Balazs Sipos, 2014, kiln cast, acid etched and polished glass, 55 x 22 x 15cm

AGNES SMETANA b.

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Grove, Agnes Smetana, 2013, multilayered blown vase with hot applied decoration, 14 x 10 cms

MARGIT M.TOTH b.

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Title, 2015, technique/materials, dimensions

DORA VARGA b. 1984

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Title, 2015, technique/materials, dimensions

ZSUZSA VIDA b. 1944

1963-69 Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1963-64 Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia; glyptics (prof. Jozef Soukup) 1964-69 Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia; glass painting (prof.

Stanislav Libensky) 1969 Diploma of Glass design; Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1970-84 Head of department, Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary 1987-2010 Head of department, Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary Zsuzsa Vida’s colourful blown and twisted glass sculptures are light and ethereal, while her cut pieces are block-like, heavy, and closed compositions. The lyrical abstracts cubist formal elements and stylistic, features based on colour symbolism also determined the break lines, the optical interpenetrations of her later spatial forms.

Selected Awards: Noémi Ferenczy Prize, 2000 Magyar Alkotó Muvészek Egyesületének /MAOE/ Alkotói Nagydíj, 2002 Public Collections include: The Corning Museum of Glass, New York (USA) Umeleckoprumyslové Museum, Praha (CZ) Mestské Muzeum SKLA, Novy Bor (CZ) Muzeum SKLA, Lemperk (CZ)

Inner Approach I, Zsuzsa Vida, 2011, slumped, cut, polished and sandblasted glass, 15 x 15 x 5cms Inner Approach II, Zsuzsa Vida, 2011, slumped, cut, polished and sandblasted glass, 15 x 25 x 5cms

HAJNALKA VIRAG b. 1944

Education info Statement Selected Awards: Public Collections include:

Hajnalka Virag Image of Work

Title, year, technique/materials, dimensions