Attila Mata
(Hungary)
Sculpture
 
DETAILS
Bronze
Dimensions: W94 x H56 x D30cm
2004
 
DESCRIPTION
The great "Golem" is made by the Hungarian artist Attila Mata and is displayed in the Toolip Art Gallery in the "Heroes, Real Humann Beings".
 
The golem is a figure in Jewish mythology—the appearance of the supernatural. The symbol of power and will.
 
BIOGRAPHY
06/02/1953 Born in Eger, Hungary
1977-1983 Studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, his master: Tamás Vígh
1981 Member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists
1986 Member of the Studio of Young Artists
1993-1994 Secretary of the Sculpture Section of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists
1995-1997 President of the Hungarian Sculptor Society
2006 One of the foundation members of the Morph Group
2018 Member of the Matéria Art Association
2020 Member of Philadelphia Sculptors
 
Important Prizes and Scholarships
2017-2022 Represented by Agora Gallery, New York (USA)
2009 HUNGART Scholarship
1993 3rd prize, 13th National Biennial of Small Sculpture, Pécs (H)
1992 Munkácsy Mihály Prize
1987 1st prize, 10th National Biennial of Small Sculpture, Pécs (H)
Derkovits Niveau Prize
1986-1989 Derkovits Scholarship
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Pop-up, EFKZ Festival, Biatorbágy (H)
2022 ’Abstract Space Illusions’ Fészek Gallery, Budapest (H)
Vajdahunyad Contemporary (with Laszlo Sallay), Budapest (H)
2019 ’Feminae Metallicae’, Esernyős Gallery, Budapest (H)
’Space Matter’, pop-up, Art Salon Társalgó Gallery, Budapest (H)
2014 Pince Gallery of Józsefváros, Budapest (H)
2009 Galleria 5, Helsinki (FIN)
 
Selected Group Exhibitions, Fairs
2024 Artexpo New York, New York (USA)
2023 Red Dot Miami, Miami (USA)
2022 ’New Contemporary.The Unique World’, PAKS Gallery, Munich (D)
’Art between Thoughts and Spontaneity’, Vienna (A)
’Any Old Time’, Galería Azur Madrid Letras, Madrid (E)
2021 ’PSSST’, Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, Wilmington (USA)
’Transcendin Passages’, Agora Gallery, New York (USA)
’Matter and Spirit’, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
2020 ’Steel Stories’, REÖK, Szeged (H)
2018 ’MORPH’, Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest (H)
’Lyrical Abstraction’, Agora Gallery, New York (USA)
’Summer Group Show’, Onishi Gallery, New York (USA)
 
Works in Public Collection
Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (D)
Rathaus Ulm (D)
Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm (D)
Data System, Ettlingen (D)
King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (H)
Gallery of Modern Hungarian Art, Pécs (H)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (H)
KOGART Collection, Budapest (H)
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs (H)
 
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