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PÁN, Márta [Neumann]
PÁN, Márta [Neumann]
Sculptor
(Budapest, 12th June, 1923 – )
Pán began her art studies at Tibor Gallé and István Strasser Örkényi, after which she was a pupil at the College of Fine Arts of Budapest for a short period. After her arrival to Paris, the drawings she prepared of plants, roots, and shells lead her step by step towards abstraction. She became acquainted with Léger, Brancusi, and then with Le Corbusier, whose studio she worked in for a short period. This is where she met her later husband, the architect, Andrés Wogenscky. The natural movement beginning from a balanced position held a significant place in her works ever since the middle of the 1950’s. The first truly significant sculpture of hers prepared in this spirit was the Teck (1956), which inspired Maurice Béjart to produce the balett with the same title, accompanied by the music of Jerry Mulligan. The other Béjart balett prepared to accompany her sculpture entitled Engyensúly /Balance/ was introduced in Berlin in 1958, then in Paris in 1959. Her first sculpture composed of polyester, based on organic forms, which floated on water, entitled Sculpture Flottante, was produced in 1961, at the commission of the Kröller-Müller Museum of Otterlo, which was followed by a number of similar works. She made use of Plexiglas, which reflects light in a masterful manner in a number of her works from 1967 till the end of the 1970’s. The monumental works designed for public spaces and buildings slowly overshadowed her production of smaller unique works. With this process she reached her goal that her works did not constitute pieces to be exhibited at studios, but rather to be parts and segments of cities, buildings, and every day surroundings. Besides her husband André Wogenscky she worked together with such great architects as Oscar Niemeyer, and the Japanese Kenzo Tange. Her work the Mur d’eau was unveiled at one of the buildings of the Champs Elyées in 1982, the Layirintus /Labyrinth/ fountain at the Place des Fêtes in 1986 and the work entitled Lacs composed of a series of seven granite fountains at the Rue Siam, a street of Brest, in 1988. One of the bridges in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a small city near Paris, designed by her was unveiled in 1997. The element of water plays and important role in all of her works listed above, and similarly to her sculptures all of these works are characterized by simple nobleness and a sense of cleanliness.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
(Budapest, 12th June, 1923 – )
Pán began her art studies at Tibor Gallé and István Strasser Örkényi, after which she was a pupil at the College of Fine Arts of Budapest for a short period. After her arrival to Paris, the drawings she prepared of plants, roots, and shells lead her step by step towards abstraction. She became acquainted with Léger, Brancusi, and then with Le Corbusier, whose studio she worked in for a short period. This is where she met her later husband, the architect, Andrés Wogenscky. The natural movement beginning from a balanced position held a significant place in her works ever since the middle of the 1950’s. The first truly significant sculpture of hers prepared in this spirit was the Teck (1956), which inspired Maurice Béjart to produce the balett with the same title, accompanied by the music of Jerry Mulligan. The other Béjart balett prepared to accompany her sculpture entitled Engyensúly /Balance/ was introduced in Berlin in 1958, then in Paris in 1959. Her first sculpture composed of polyester, based on organic forms, which floated on water, entitled Sculpture Flottante, was produced in 1961, at the commission of the Kröller-Müller Museum of Otterlo, which was followed by a number of similar works. She made use of Plexiglas, which reflects light in a masterful manner in a number of her works from 1967 till the end of the 1970’s. The monumental works designed for public spaces and buildings slowly overshadowed her production of smaller unique works. With this process she reached her goal that her works did not constitute pieces to be exhibited at studios, but rather to be parts and segments of cities, buildings, and every day surroundings. Besides her husband André Wogenscky she worked together with such great architects as Oscar Niemeyer, and the Japanese Kenzo Tange. Her work the Mur d’eau was unveiled at one of the buildings of the Champs Elyées in 1982, the Layirintus /Labyrinth/ fountain at the Place des Fêtes in 1986 and the work entitled Lacs composed of a series of seven granite fountains at the Rue Siam, a street of Brest, in 1988. One of the bridges in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a small city near Paris, designed by her was unveiled in 1997. The element of water plays and important role in all of her works listed above, and similarly to her sculptures all of these works are characterized by simple nobleness and a sense of cleanliness.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
