Viktor Lois

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Viktor Lois (born September 17, 1950 in Tatabánya ) is a Hungarian-American sculptor, installation and multimedia artist.

Lois began his activities as a self-taught visual artist in the early 1970s. In 1978 he founded the first private art gallery in socialist Hungary in his hometown, the Beteg Szamar Galeria (Sick Donkey Gallery), in which he mainly exhibited his own wooden sculptures. In addition, the first mobile sculptures such as Erőfitogtató mobilt were created . In the 1980s, furniture, vehicles, machines and musical instruments were created as sculptures - so since 1987 he has created more than 200 musical sculptures, which are works of sculpture and musical instruments at the same time, and founded the band TundraVoice , which plays exclusively on these instruments.

In 1993 he represented Hungary at the Biennale di Venezia with a selection of these works . In 1996 the Hungarian government gave him a building in the Tatabánya Mining Museum, in which more than 70 of his sculptures are shown in a permanent exhibition. Since 1997 he has organized a summer camp for artists of various genres such as sculptors, photographers, musicians, installation and multimedia artists, during which works are created for a subsequent exhibition. Lois' works have been shown in many European and Asian countries and in the USA and are represented in the permanent collections of the Ferenczy Múzeum in Szentendre and the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest. Since 2005 Lois has lived mainly in the USA.

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