2024. December 22. Sunday
Molnár Dénes Gallery - Vădaş
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Address: 547439, Vădaş Principala 58
Phone number: (265) 585-153, (265) 585-080
E-mail: szekelyf@personal.ro
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The graphic artist, painter and teacher Dénes Molnár was born on 22 July 1947, sixty years ago, in Vadasd of Marosszék. He was an acknowledged mediator of woodcut-graphics towards the end of the past century. He attended Fine Art Secondary School in Marosvásárhely until 1966 and graduated from the Nicolae Grigorescu Collage of Fine Arts In Bucharest in 1975.
His professors were Pál Nagy, István Barabási, Gábor Piskolti, Pantu Stelian. During the period of 1975-90, he worked as a teacher in Marosvásárhely but a show trial was initiated against him that lasted for years. When the trial was over and he could have returned to teaching, he could not do so due to his serious illness. He worked for the Culture Committee of Maros County in his last years and died at age 53, on 19 February 2000. He held over 75 solo shows in Hungary and abroad and was also part of several collective exhibitions.
The most important places of his shows were Marosvásárhely, Bucharest, Székelyudvarhely, Jászvásár, Budapest, Hollókő, Montreal, Tokyo, Sofia, Moscow. He was awarded in Petrozsény, Marosvásárhely, Suceava, Wiesbaden etc. He explained the following about himself in an interview with Nagy Miklós Kund in 1997: "I am the man of serieses: I am able to figure out my thoughts in serieses. This is how I am trying to fight trifling that I can be due to the great amount of my ideas. (...) This apprehension is something for it is not me to be blamed. There are people who are more or less active. I probably like camps because I am a rather active person.
His most famous serieses: Székelyland in Pictures (woodcuts, copper cuts), Constellations, Church Serieses, Zodiac Series, Castle Series. Ex-libris series, Salto Mortalis, Nudes. He recorded the churches that turned victim of the village destructions of Ceauşescu to preserve them somehow to the posterity. In the meantime he did engravings of historic castle in Transylvania and Hungary adding a passage of the castles in three languages. He travelled across Székelyland with only a few villages left he could not visit in his lifetime.
His important volumes: Humol Dictionary (1977), One Time One... (illustrations (1994), Yelled Lines (1994,- poems), Transylvania Artwork Collection (2002). Book illustrations: Book of Hunters (1983), Hunting in Vadasd in Marosszék (1983, Ethnographic Essays), Watch out! Danger of Accident (1985), Dakhs in the Open Sky (1991), Self-Consciousness and Wooden Plow (1992), Holidays, and Traditions in Vadasd (1999, Ethnography), Vadasd Chronicles (2000, Church and Local History). He published art criticism in periodicals and newspapers.
Dénes Molnár was really good at organizing. From 1971 to 1975 he was president of the Szőnyi István Fine Art Club in Bucharest. From 1975 to 1980 he was president of the Apollo Circle of Young Artists of Marosvásárhely. From 1977 to 1994 he organized 18 national Humour Graphic Salons.
A month before his death he bestowed 32 of his artworks to the village of his birth, Vadasd. The artworks are on display in the Dénes Molnár Gallery at the local primary school.
His professors were Pál Nagy, István Barabási, Gábor Piskolti, Pantu Stelian. During the period of 1975-90, he worked as a teacher in Marosvásárhely but a show trial was initiated against him that lasted for years. When the trial was over and he could have returned to teaching, he could not do so due to his serious illness. He worked for the Culture Committee of Maros County in his last years and died at age 53, on 19 February 2000. He held over 75 solo shows in Hungary and abroad and was also part of several collective exhibitions.
The most important places of his shows were Marosvásárhely, Bucharest, Székelyudvarhely, Jászvásár, Budapest, Hollókő, Montreal, Tokyo, Sofia, Moscow. He was awarded in Petrozsény, Marosvásárhely, Suceava, Wiesbaden etc. He explained the following about himself in an interview with Nagy Miklós Kund in 1997: "I am the man of serieses: I am able to figure out my thoughts in serieses. This is how I am trying to fight trifling that I can be due to the great amount of my ideas. (...) This apprehension is something for it is not me to be blamed. There are people who are more or less active. I probably like camps because I am a rather active person.
His most famous serieses: Székelyland in Pictures (woodcuts, copper cuts), Constellations, Church Serieses, Zodiac Series, Castle Series. Ex-libris series, Salto Mortalis, Nudes. He recorded the churches that turned victim of the village destructions of Ceauşescu to preserve them somehow to the posterity. In the meantime he did engravings of historic castle in Transylvania and Hungary adding a passage of the castles in three languages. He travelled across Székelyland with only a few villages left he could not visit in his lifetime.
His important volumes: Humol Dictionary (1977), One Time One... (illustrations (1994), Yelled Lines (1994,- poems), Transylvania Artwork Collection (2002). Book illustrations: Book of Hunters (1983), Hunting in Vadasd in Marosszék (1983, Ethnographic Essays), Watch out! Danger of Accident (1985), Dakhs in the Open Sky (1991), Self-Consciousness and Wooden Plow (1992), Holidays, and Traditions in Vadasd (1999, Ethnography), Vadasd Chronicles (2000, Church and Local History). He published art criticism in periodicals and newspapers.
Dénes Molnár was really good at organizing. From 1971 to 1975 he was president of the Szőnyi István Fine Art Club in Bucharest. From 1975 to 1980 he was president of the Apollo Circle of Young Artists of Marosvásárhely. From 1977 to 1994 he organized 18 national Humour Graphic Salons.
A month before his death he bestowed 32 of his artworks to the village of his birth, Vadasd. The artworks are on display in the Dénes Molnár Gallery at the local primary school.
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