Lajos SEJBEN

painter, sculptor

  • Internationally known
  • Award winner
  • In the press
  • Solo exhibitions

„…ahhoz kell csak igazán képzelet, hogy lássuk a valóságot… ” – Osváth Ernő

 

I deal with several branches of the visual genre, so I consider myself not only a painter but also a sculptor. In my pictures: which can be custom-made paper pictures or blackboard pictures, I always start from reality, for which I usually make photos, drawings, preliminary studies, and sketches. My style usually appears as a lyrical abstract expressive image. In a little more detail, this means that I balance the surfaces and colors in a subtle, well-thought-out way that exudes calmness, and balance them, or if appropriate, I "overwrite" them in an unusual way, which makes my pictures characteristic of me. Therefore, I think that my works convey a harmony and an inner calm to the viewer. I believe that the artist's job is to transform between the real and the invisible world. I create my sculptures with a similar mindset, with the difference that the possibilities provided by three dimensions are sometimes much more concrete and tangible for the viewer. With these spatial things of mine, I like to highlight the properties inherent in the materials, to make them clash, and not least to make the viewer think. This means that, for example, incompatible materials such as paper-stone or metal-textile, so the combination of soft-burnable and hard-cold generates special indescribable inner feelings in the viewer. Of course, the above-mentioned example is only a concept, a kind of attitude, which is not sufficient in itself for the work as a whole, but it belongs to the philosophy behind the creation of the work. In the digitized world of our time, I try in every way to make people realize that we cannot ignore the culture of the forgotten ages, their rich and pure world of forms, because it is our job as artists to show them to the future and thereby create a renewed value.

Works from the artist's oeuvre

Solo exhibitions

2021
"Time capsule" Makó Archive sculptures, art books

2021
"...I'll never forget it's summer" Wagner yard Szeged, sculptures

2018
Szeged National Theater pictures, sculptures

2017
"Desperate time" EDF Dégáz Gallery Szeged pictures, sculptures

2015
"SUB ROSA" SZAB Headquarters, Szeged

2012
"CONNECTIONS" SZTE JGYTF Drawing - Works. Department of Tört

2012
"CONNECTIONS II." Csongrád City Gallery

2008
"Half Past" Reök Palace (retrospective exhibition) - Szeged

1999
Stege, Mon island. Cultural Center (Denmark)

1996
Rusty Water, Cultural Center, Turku (Finland)

Group exhibitions

2022
Panel Painting Biennale Szeged, Reök Palace

2021
Joseph Beuys memorial exhibition Tatabánya, Vértes Agora

2018
International Grotesque Triennale, Kaposvár

2016
Autumn Exhibition, Hódmezővásárhely

2015
VII. Christian Iconography Exhibition, Cifrapalota

2014
III. Sculpture Triennale Art Mill, Szentendre

2009
Grotesque Triennale, Kaposvár

2007
Summer Exhibition, Szeged, Italian Institute

1998
VII. International Textile-Paper Competition Kyoto, Japan

1998
National Watercolor Biennale Eger, City Gallery

Press releases

Japan Design Museum, Kyoto

Cultural Center, Turku (FIN)

Mail-Art Foundation, Kaposvár

Ferenc Móra Museum, Szeged

Oxygen Foundation, Győr

City Museum, Darmstadt (D)

Lombard Headquarters, Szeged,

Tower Museum, Hódmezővásárhely

Contemporary Collection, Almássy-Wenckheim Castle, Gyulavár

Petőfi House, Contemporary Teacher. Collect. small-skinned,

Dobó I. Castle Museum, Contemporary Aquarell. Collect., Eger 

Prizes

2021
Joseph Beuys memorial exhibition Tatabánya, Vértes Agora award

2020
Szeged Panel Painting Biennale, Szeged city award

2018
International Grotesque Triennale Kaposvár, MMA award

2018
József Gregor Award of the Art Board of the Szegedért Foundation

2014
III. Sculpture Triennale Art Mill, Szentendre - MKISZ award

2012
Szombathely Textil Triennale, International Minitextile category - MKISZ award

2009
Grotesque Triennale, Kaposvár - Dorottya plaque

2002
Hajó - Society of Hungarian Painters, Bp. Vigadó Gallery - MAOE award

1998
VII. International Textile-Paper Competition Kyoto, Design Museum gold award and the Ministry of Trade award

1995
Gold prize, International Japanese Paper-Textile Competition, Kyoto