Sándor Móga

Sándor Móga
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Born	(1927-03-01)March 1, 1927 Budapest
Died	January 30, 2022(2022-01-30) (aged 94) Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Citizenship	Hungary
Occupation	Sculptor Painter Goldsmith

Sándor Móga (Budapest, 1 March 1927 – Budapest, 30 January 2022) Hungarian sculptor, painter and goldsmith.

Biography

Móga began his advanced studies of art at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 1947 as a student of goldsmith Pál Lajos, sculptor Miklós Borsos and painter Pál Miháltz.

On April 14, 1948, he was chosen as winner of the open competition of the National Hungarian Society of Applied Arts with his work (a vase) at the College.

He was a member of the Hungarian Art Foundation, and after its termination, the member of National Association of Hungarian Artists. From 1990, he became also a member of the newly arisen Association of Fine and Applied Artists.

Career and style

His passion for sculpture was accompanied by his interest in goldsmith's and silversmith’s craft. His first works, also presented at national exhibitions, are sculptures made of bronze, lead and stone. His works of art made their debut at national exhibitions, in 1957 at the 3rd National Fine Arts Exhibition in Miskolc, and in 1962 at the 9th Hungarian Fine Arts Exhibition. At solo exhibitions, he presented a colourful range of his art to the general public in 1970 and 1983 in Budapest, and last time in Paris at “Salon International d’Art Contemporain”, in 2022.

"The persistent creative work carried out for more than 60 years culminated in the clarification of the organic style features on the decorative trays, sculptures, cassettes, small sculptures and home furnishings, which peculiarities make his works of art extremely unique even in the eyes of the contemporaries."

During his artistic career his main contracting partner was the Hungarian Picture Gallery Company (having monopol position during the period of the Hungarian People's Republic), and he also sold a number of works abroad, to European and overseas countries (Germany, Venezuela, etc.).

At the end of his artistic career, he experimented with modern artistic solutions: finding perspectives, he took the advantages of the possibilities of galvanotechnics (galvanoplasty, galvanostegy), and combined these solutions with traditional handwork, material shaping, welding, soldering, punching, trotting, embossing, chiselling, surface treatment and with methods of alloying, colored patina, and fire enameling. His decorative mural plates (cultural anthropological themed or organic styled) made of red copper, sometimes combined with fire enamel inlays, are concerned very special (created unique or in small series). In his late creative years, he dealt with oil and watercolor painting.

In 1991, he enrolled in the design competition for the new forint coins of the Hungary Republic issued by the Hungarian National Bank with his detailed designs.

In exceptional cases, he also undertook the restoration of metal works of art (e.g. in 1995, the decorative chandelier of the church in Egervár, which is originally a work of art of István Németh in 1916).

Echo

“Sándor Móga started out as a sculptor and with considerable talent, as evidenced by his early works which have been successfully exhibited in many exhibitions. He has achieved significant results in exploring the feasibilities of the material; the harmonious ensembles of different metals – white and non-ferrous – are particularly noteworthy, of which, unfortunately, there are hardly any other examples. His aspirations brought him a felicitous inner parallel with the most valuable trends of modern artistic streams. Material and means (the mode of processing) are subjected to the order of human vision and thus gain human value, saturated with human gestures; in this their fullness is manifested. Thus, Sándor Móga is one of the applied artists who have set high goals for themselves.”

– János Gróh, painter, Professor at Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Drawing.

“His works extend the boundaries of the genre of gold and silversmith’s craft towards the genre of sculptural arts, sometimes encroaching on the boundaries of the genre itself.”

– Gyula Kovács Art Historian.

"There are no groups or schools in today's metalwork, everyone goes their own way. Most of our artists does not have his peculiar style yet, but especially the young generation is characterized by brave initiative. [...] Sándor Móga's fundamentally romantic approach (creepy appliqués) matches the constructivity manifested in his strong compositional skills."

– Ákos Koczogh Art Historian

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1970, Budapest - Paál László Hall, Hungarian Picture Gallery Company (18 September - 3 October, 1970)
• 1983, Budapest - Paál László Hall, Hungarian Picture Gallery Company (1-15 September, 1983)

Collective exhibitions

• 1957, Miskolc - 3rd National Fine Arts Exhibition in Miskolc (Herman Ottó Museum)
• 1962, Budapest - 9th Hungarian Fine Arts Exhibition (Hall of Art, 29 April – 30 June, 1962)
• 1967/68, Kiskunhalas - János Thorma Museum (on the occasion of a series of exhibitions)
• Szeged
• 1990, Budapest - Csontváry Hall, Collective Exhibition (Hungarian Picture Gallery Company and the Association of Fine and Applied Artists, 19-28 July, 1990)
• 1990, Budapest - István Csók Gallery, Collective Exhibition (Hungarian Picture Gallery Company and the Association of Fine and Applied Artists, 19-28 July, 1990)
• 2022, Paris-Versailles - Salon international d'art contemporain (Paris Expo, Pavillon 5, Porte de Versailles, January 2022).

Bibliography

• Journal: Műgyűjtő 1970/2. 58. p. and 1971/1. 56. p.
• Journal: Művészet 1970/12. 39. p.
• Professional literature: Koczogh Ákos: Fémművesség (Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata, Budapest, 1977, ISBN 963 336 073 0)
• Professional literature: Bakonyvári M. Ágnes: Kortárs ötvösművészet 2000 (Magyar Alkotóművészek Országos Egyesülete, Budapest, 2001, ISBN 963 00 7093 6)

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