Sándor Szombati

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Sándor Szombati (born April 20, 1951 in Pécs , Hungary , † March 24, 2006 in Krefeld ) was a Hungarian musician and artist who created sound sculptures and kinetic objects .

Life

In 1993, Sándor Szombati described in the catalog for the exhibition in the Lehmbruck Museum in the telegram style his “life sound run” and began with the following words: “1951 Big Bang - 1956 first making music on the rungs of a dung cart.” After graduating from high school in 1969, he “crossed borders four times.” He fled Hungary and came to Germany via Yugoslavia , Italy and Austria . He settled in Duisburg , where he studied music from 1972 to 1976 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and Duisburg. In 1976 he moved into the artist settlement Schauenhof in Rheinhausen . Hajo Wiese founded the artists' settlement in 1972. It was there that his “total infection with the art virus,” as Szombati wrote, began. Wiese opened the village inn in Friemersheim in 1978 . Szombati also rented an apartment in Friemersheim and a studio under the roof of the Protestant parish hall on Wörthstrasse. It was there that his sound sculptures and kinetic objects were created, including the "Homage to the Village Inn".

Szombati has traveled to Italy again and again since his studies in Duisburg. He got to know Hans Werner Henze , who founded the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano in 1975 . In 1984 Szombati exhibited his sound objects Oggetti sonori for the first time at the 9th Cantiere internatzionale d'Arte in Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano. At the beginning of the year he met his future wife Jutta Hetges and together they traveled to Montepulciano in the summer. Henze invited Szombati to the 16th Cantiere internatzionale d'Arte in 1991 at the Museo Civico in Montepulciano. Henze, who launched the Munich Biennale for New Music Theater together with the City of Munich, also exhibited pendulum works and other sound objects by Szombati as part of this biennial in the Gasteig cultural center in Munich in 1992 .

“In both places, Montepulciano and Munich, I was able to observe how the visitors who were occupied with the stone games gradually looked completely in love and enchanted. Sándor Szombati is a magician who operates from the border transitions between music, matter and imagery and gently and discreetly draws attention to the very quiet things in the world that one "normally" overhears, or those of the city noise and the crashing of our hearts are constantly drowned out. "

In 1993 Henze described his experience with the work of Szombati in the catalog of the Lehmbruck Museum Sándor Szombati, Sound Sculptures .

From 1990 Szombati began to create sculptures as kinetic objects. His magnetic and levitation works , as well as the gravitational and equilibrium objects , were created in his studio on the top floor. His experiments and works on view there gave visitors the impression of a laboratory, wrote Stephan Wolters in 2011 in the catalog for the exhibition Retrospective in the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl. Szombati called his kinetic sculptures objects . They were exhibited as sculptures and sculptures , for example in the exhibition Sculptors in Germany 95 at the Kunstverein Augsburg . In her article about this exhibition, Doris Schmidt published a picture of his work non toccare and wrote: “The most consistent example in the exhibition, which is taking place for the second time in the Tuscan portico of the armory, is the work by Sandor Szombati shown here.” Szombati died in spring 2006 after a serious illness. He left his wife Jutta Hetges and their two sons János Szombati and Tibor Szombati.

Museum of St. Laurence

Museum St. Laurentius in the Hohenbudberg railway settlement

Six years after Szombati's early death, the Evangelical Church Congregation Friemersheim quit the studio because the parish hall was sold. Jutta Hetges and the friends of Szombati founded a support association to show his works to the public. Looking for a suitable location, they found the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius in the Hohenbudberg railway settlement in the Friemersheim district . The church, which is protected as an architectural monument, was profaned in 2008 and the friends' association named itself Friends of the Museum St. Laurentius eV when the church was rented. The St. Laurentius Museum was opened in October 2014. Since then, numerous sound sculptures and kinetic objects by Szombati as well as other exhibitions have been shown there as a permanent exhibition.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993: Sound sculptures 1992 - 1993 , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.
  • 1998: non toccare , magnet works , kinetics and sound objects, Claudia Böer Gallery, Hanover. Süd-Nord , performance in the context of the exhibition Arktis - Antarktis , art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn.
  • 1999: Permanent moment , magnetic and gravitational objects, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl.
  • 2001 New magnetic and gravitational objects , Kunstverein Augsburg. “Sound and Silence”, room installation, Voswinckelshof Museum, Dinslaken. Magnetic work, sound, kinetics , Galerie Monika Beck, Homburg.
  • 2011: Sándor Szombati - retrospective - Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1995: Sculptor in Germany 95 , Kunstverein Augsburg. “Floating - Antigrav in Plastic”, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl.
  • 1999: Thinking outside the box , Galerie Claudia Böer, Hanover.
  • 2002/03 Turning, circling, rotating - art in motion , Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Art Museum Heidenheim, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern and Art Museum Ahlen.
  • 2005: The Language of Material , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl.
  • 2011: radiant, but ...? , Hoffmann Gallery, Friedberg.
  • 2016–2017: amazed, sebastian hempel and sándor szombati , edition & Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg.

literature

  • Christoph Brockhaus, Hans Werner Henze, Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel: Sándor Szombati, sound sculptures , catalog, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, 1993, ISBN 978-3-89279-997-9 .
  • Manfred de La Motte, Ed .: Sculptor 95 in Germany , catalog, Kunstverein Augsburg, 1995.
  • Doris Schmidt: Sculpture delimits itself , exhibition Sculptors in Germany, Augsburger Kunstverein, Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 17, 1995, page 14.
  • Karl-Heinz Brosthaus, Ulrike Groos: float antigrav in plastic , catalog, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, 1995, ISBN 3-924790-41-8 .
  • Uwe Rüth: Permanent moment Sándor Szombati: Magnetic and gravitational objects , catalog, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, 1999, ISBN 978-3-924790-49-3 .
  • Karl-Heinz Brosthaus eds., Authors Karl-Heinz Brosthaus, Jutta Hetges, Stephan Wolters: Sándor Szombati RETROSPEKTIVE , catalog, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, 2011, ISBN 978-3-924790-89-9 .
  • Martin Krampitz: Keeping memories alive , WAZ.de, 2013.
  • Martin Krampitz: Railway settlement gets an art museum , WAZ.de, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sándor Szombati: Sándor Szombati and his sound sculptures. In the catalog Klangskulpturen 1992 - 1993 , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1993, ISBN 3-89279-997-0 , (unpaginated).
  2. ↑ Martin Krampitz: Railway settlement gets an art museum. In: WAZ of October 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Krampitz: Keeping the "memory" alive . In: WAZ of August 5, 2013.
  4. ↑ Michael Kerstan: 40 years of Cantiere , on the website of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation .
  5. ↑ Munich Biennale Festival for New Music Theater, May 28 to June 9, 2016. (PDF 3.01 MB).
  6. ↑ Hans Werner Henze: Sándor Szombati and his sound sculptures. , In the catalog Klangskulpturen 1992 - 1993 , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1993, ISBN 3-89279-997-0 , (unpaginated).
  7. ↑ Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel: Sándor Szombati and his sound sculptures , in the catalog Klangskulpturen 1992 - 1993 , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1993, ISBN 3-89279-997-0 , (unpaginated).
  8. ^ Stephan Wolters: Retrospective . Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, 2011, ISBN 3924790892 , p. 4.
  9. ↑ Doris Schmidt: Sculpture delimits itself. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 17, 1995, p. 14.
  10. ↑ a b Sándor Szombati , on the website of the Friends of the Museum St. Laurentius e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Szombati, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian musician and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2006
Place of death Krefeld