Contemplative

Péter Czér: Contemplative

(2013, Handshake Europe Sculpture Park)

The Contemplator, the work of Péter Czér is a snow-white marble figure from Ruskica looking towards Lake Balaton. Elaborated from a specially hard material and worked with fine, smooth surfaces statue is one the ornaments of the Statue Park with its bulk of simplified form, sensuality and tranquillity.

The statue has been formerly known under another title of Szürenkező which is a local word from the Great Lowlands and means Day-dreamer.

“When I was sculpting it, I imagined I was sitting by the shores of a large water why staring at the huge waves (and the melon rinds) – in a contemplating mood.” – Péter Czér

The artist

Péter Czér

He was born in Budapest in 1955. He graduated from the Ybl Miklós College of Civil Engineering in 1978. He then designed and made applied arts objects for 10 years as a ceramicist. During these years, he learned terracotta technique, stone and wood carving, and bronze sculpture from the most outstanding masters. He has been creating his sculptures from these materials ever since.

Since 1988, as an architect designer, he has been a founding member of the Vadász Architect Studio.

As an architect designer, he enjoys working in the fields of architecture bordering on interior design, applied arts and fine arts. He is also involved in the design of public spaces, parks, the equipment and games of unique playgrounds, and often in his artistic execution.

As a sculptor and architect, he is also interested in areas between genres and forms of expression. The combination of the rational beauty of materials and abstract poetic idealism, always in order to display something concrete, well-articulated, is what he considers to be his vocation.

He is a member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists (MAOE) and the Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ), as well as of the Architect Studio led by György Vadász.