Laszlo Nemeth

Laszlo Nemeth is a Hungarian artist whose ceramic sculptures simultaneously unsettle, provoke, intrigue and amuse. Some present an apparent conflict of the macabre and comedic, others imply an undercurrent of political unrest.

Nemeth was born in Russian-occupied Hungary in 1965, the ‘Iron Curtain’ era of austerity and little or no access to western culture. A self-proclaimed rebel, he shunned the confines of the Communist state education system, choosing to satisfy his curiosity for learning with books, especially on physics, evolution and genetics. From the latter would emerge the personal repertoire of his art motifs, shaped in part perhaps by the stark graphic styles of the Eastern Bloc. In his village, exposure to art had been minimal and art education nonexistent; in 1992, none of that was to matter.

The Communist regime had collapsed and the last Russian troops were leaving Hungary. Doors to the West were open and new opportunities for self-expression available. Out of curiosity, at age 27, Nemeth enrolled in a two-year part-time ceramics course whose instructors included Zsuzsa Fuzesi, Peter Korompai and Tamas Szarka. A visit that same year to Venice’s Guggenheim proved that his imagination need have no bounds, and with a...

Ceramic course 1992-1994 in Székesfehérvár Hungary

AWARDS:

2005 Balaton Exhibition; National Fine Art
Biennale Award of County Zala
1996 County Fejér’s Amateur Fine- and Applied
Arts Exhibition’s Award

2015 Mihály Munkácsy Elementary School @
Székesfehérvár, Hungary - independent exhibition
(Delivered by Enikő Orosz)
2013 Contemporary Art Institute @ Dunaújváros,
Hungary – County of Fejér’s Fall Exhibition
Olof Palme House @ Budapest, Hungary – FOUR
ELEMENTS – group exhibition
2011 Pelikán Gallery @ Székesfehérvár, Hungary –
Winter Art Exhibition
Olof Palme House @ Budapest, Hungary – XXII.
Autumn Ceramics Exhibition
2011 ZPAP Gallery, Opole, Poland, (EVELYN’S
DREAM, self – dependent exhibition)
Pelican Gallery Székesfehérvár, Hungary,
(Workshop of Statuette-cast iron Sculptor and
Ceramics in Mór, 2010)
2010 Pelican Gallery, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, (2009
Workshop of Mór)
2009 Vaszary Gallery, Kaposvár, (7th Grotesk Triennál)
2008 Opole, Poland, (International Ceramics
Simposium)
2007 Garrison Club of Székesfehérvár, (Desire virus,
self-dependent exhibition)
2005 Town hall Loft Gallery of Balatonalmádi
(Timelessness, Balaton exhibition 2005 – National
Biennal Festival of the Fine Arts)
Erdei Ferenc Cultural Centre and Art School,
Kecskemét (I.Inte...