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Recent News and Events

 

 

Les Jozsa’s latest wood carving to Pecs

 

September 6th, 2010

 

Leslie Jozsa, one of the original Sopron-UBC forestry graduates - who had spent his working life as a forestry research scientist in BC before retiring to pursue his passion, wood carving – is off to one of this year’s three designated European Cities of Culture, Pecs. Les (or Laci as he is known to friends) had been commissioned by the City of Seattle to do a West Coast carving to be donated to Seattle’s sister city Pecs on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the twinning of the two cities.

 

The unveiling will take place in Pecs on September 23rd and will be attended by the US ambassador, H.E. Eleni Tsakopoulos as well as City of Pecs officials and a representative of the Canadian embassy. Read more...

 

 

 

 

Janos Buda at The Bluffs Gallery: Rediscovering an artist’s legacy

 

July 12, 2010

Toronto – A life in art will be revisited at Scarborough’s Bluffs Gallery this month. Drawings, paintings and prints from the estate of Hungarian-born artist Janos Buda will be shown in the Scarborough Arts Council’s gallery from July 17 – 27.

 

Buda’s life was consumed with art-making, and his early years as an artist included numerous exhibitions in European galleries. From his arrival in Toronto in 1955, Buda was involved in this city’s art community, and was a well-recognized visitor to concerts and exhibitions. He was an active member of many groups, including Scarborough Arts Council, where he remained a faithful volunteer until shortly before his death. Read more...

 

 

 

 

Exhibition of Hungarian visual artists in Hamilton

 

May 20th 2010

An exhibition of Hungarian visual artists in Canada is taking place at the Pearl Company, a theatre and arts facility in Hamilton from April 30th to June 1st 2010. The group exhibits together to help promote each other’s work and to share experiences as contemporary visual artists. For information visit the website of the Perl Company here:

http://thepearlcompany.ca/?p=1215

 

 

 

Gabor Szilasi wins Governor General’s Award for Visual Arts

 

Gabor Szilasi has won the Governor General’s Award for Visual, Arts, one of eight Canadian artists this year.

 

The others are: Haida sculptor Robert Davidson, filmmaker André Forcier, painter Rita Letendre, video artist Tom Sherman, and painter Claude Tousignant.. Glass sculptor Ione Thorkelsson won the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in fine crafts, while Terry Ryan received the Outstanding Contribution Award as long-time general manager of West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset, Nunavut and director of Dorset Fine Arts in Toronto.

 

For more information about the Award, see the Canada Council’s news release.

March 10th 2010

 

For more on Gabor Szilasi click here.

 

Oliver Botar’s book on Weininger wins award

 

We are happy to announce that A Bauhausler in Canada: Andor Weininger in the 50s has been awarded the Melva J. Dwyer Book Award for creating an exceptional reference or research tool relating to Canadian art or architecture.

 

For more information, click here.

 

March 19, 2010

 

 

Gabor Szilasi exhibition at National Gallery of Canada

 

Well-known Montreal photographer Gabor Szilasi who came to Canada after the 1956 uprising is being recognized with a one-man show at the National Gallery of Canada which opens on October 8th and runs till January 17th. On October 9th at 12.15 pm David Harris, the exhibition’s curator and Associate Professor of at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto is doing a talk about why and how he came to put the exhibit together. This will be followed at 1.30 pm by a presentation by Mr Szilasi himself about his work. Mr Szilasi was one of the fifty Canadians of Hungarian origin whose portrait by V Tony Hauser was included in the National Arts Centre’s Hungary 50th anniversary project “ New Lives” in 2006. See our webpage: http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Anniversary/newlives.cfm.

 

For more information on the exhibit click here.

October 1, 2009

 

 

József Halmy

 

Éva Hegyi

 

The graphic designer and painter József Halmy was born in 1929 in Putnok, in the North of Hungary. In 1945, he was deported to Germany. After World War II, he spent four years in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts. In 1952, Halmy emigrated to Canada and from 1962 to 1966 he studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. After his studies, he worked at the National Art Gallery in Ottawa as a painting and paper conservator, all the while continuing to create his own work as an artist and exhibiting in Canada and Hungary. Read more...

 

November 9th, 2009

 

“Re: In Situ Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian-Hungarian Artists”

 

For information about CHAC’s exhibitions in Hungary in the summer and fall of 2009, please click here.

 

 

Organized by the Canadian-Hungarian Artists’ Collective (CHAC), this multimedia exhibition will showcase the work of over 40 Canadian- Hungarian artists, highlighting the important role that Hungarian descent artist have played within Canada’s multicultural tapestry. The exhibitions series will travel to public galleries during 2009 and 2010 across Canada and tour the following museums in Hungary: the Muveszetmalom, Szentendre, the Helikon Kastely Muzeum, Keszthely, the REOK Muzeum, in Szeged and finally the Székely Nemzeti Múzeum, in Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania

CHAC urgently needs your help to realize this unprecedented project. You can make a donation by downloading the fundraising letter and donor form HERE. Otherwise contact CHAC through their website: www.chaccanada.org or CHAC President Andrea Blanar at andreablanar@aol.com

 

Click on the above image for the PDF of the Exhibit Flyer.

 

 

June 6th, 2009

 

 

Toronto Exhibition: HUVAC Invites Toronto and Montreal Artists to the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Centre

 

From May 3 to 10 Hungarian artists from Montreal and Toronto will have the opportunity to jointly display their work at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Toronto.

 

It’s an opportunity for the artists’ organizations in the two centres to develop ties and friendships and discuss future collaborations. Sixty per cent of the sale price of their work will be returned to the artists.

 

Montreal artists are asked to deliver a small, ready-to-hang work (maximum size, 20” x 30”) on April 27 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to the Youth Centre, 90 Guizot St. next to the Hungarian Catholic Church. Artwork must be properly labeled and there will be a transportation fee of $60 per artist.

 

Toronto artists should take their work and a brief CV and photo of themselves to Hungarian House, 840 St. Clair Ave. West.

 

Invitation

 

For more information, contact Hungarian House, (416) 654-4926 or by email: office@hccc.orga or visit: www.hccc.org

 

To see a video clip of the opening of the exhibition click on this link to the website of Magyar TV in Toronto:

http://mtvtoronto.blogspot.com

 

For more information on the Hungarian Visual Artists of Canada association in Toronto, visit their website at  

http://www.huvac.ca/

 

For more information on the Canadian Hungarian Artists’ Collective (CHAC), visit their website at  http://chaccanada.org/en/index.htm

 

 

Art Gallery of Hamilton’s double Hungarian display

 

The Art Gallery of Hamilton is putting on display its famous “Christ Before Pilate” by one of Hungary’s best-known painters, Mihály Munkácsy. This painting (measuring 4m by 6m) is part of a triptych on Christ’s Passion, the other parts of which are in the Dery Museum in Debrecen, Hungary. The Hamilton work was donated to the Gallery by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum in 2002 and was on loan to the Debrecen gallery for the last few years. Christ Before Pilate will be on display between February 16th and April 27th with a special public lecture on February 28th. For more information visit the Gallery’s website at:  

 

Munkacsy Exhibit

 

 

At the same time as the Munkacsy masterpiece is getting special attention, the Gallery is opening an exhibition by Hungarian Canadian sculptor, Ora Markstein (February 16th – April 27th). Markstein, who came to Canada in the 70’s became an artist in her new homeland. For more information about this show, click here:

Ora Markstein Exhibit

 

 

Loki Gilli

Last but not least, we would like to draw the visitor’s attention to our first story Loki Gili, a collection of photos and a mural by Hungarian Canadian Roma - from an exhibition recently held at two Hamilton art galleries.

 

 

 

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