Lugossy, Maria

(Budapest, Hungary 1950; lives in Budapest, Hungary)

One after the other I gave „birth“ to those works (Cosmogenesis, Tectite, Existence – in the Making, etc.) that were the most significant pieces of a definite, albeit early phase of my creative career, called Genesis. In the works of this phase I tried to express the mystic mystery of human existence and its beginnings. Work followed work up to the 1990’s, when a great turning point occurred in the history of the late 20th century. The iron curtain between East and West crumbled, earlier historical scars were torn open again, and a tidal wave of human emotions burst forth from people kept under lock and key for over forty years. The reactions of sensitive artists to such great events were even more vehement than the emotions themselves. The same thing happened to me as well. My early world of peaceful inclusion in harmony with their „hosts“ had dramatically changed. A new series of somber and sober works of much greater tragedy was launched.

In 1998, I began the creation of my History Books series, into which I intended to write, with sculptural means, everything that I hold sacred, transcendent, and important from the past and the present, for the future. These are and will be requiems and commemorations of those millions of nameless people, who died the death of martyrs, those unknown victims of all times, from ancient tyrannies to the present day.

Mária Lugossy