Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: Exhibition of sculptress Márta Pán

Until the 20th of September the Budapest museum of Fine Arts is dedicating a temporary exhibition to the sculptress Márta Pán.

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Following fate similar to that of many other artists, Márta Pán is not widely known in the  country that  gave her birth (Hungary,  although from 1952 she became a French national) but her sculptures are displayed in public spaces all over the world. Her works are erected in Ottawa, Amsterdam, Paris and in Japan, where there are around 30 of her works, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize by the Emperor. The award is an equivalent of a Japanese Nobel Prize.

Just one year after her death, Budapest Museum visitors are able to see ten of the artist’s monumental steel sculptures, displayed one after the other in the impressive Renaissance and Baroque Hall on the ground floor, and on the first floor, displayed among the paintings of German and Flemish masters.

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Culture.hu defines walking among Páns works “like being in a dream city where gravity does not pull one downward, but lifts one up. Her sculptures radiate perfection, like survivors of the loss of the sense of beauty”. Indeed an exhibition not to miss, considering also the numerous other collections to see once in the Museum of Fine Arts.