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Végh Ákos
"My birthplace is Tata, Hungary. It is where my parents worked as veterinarians and this is the place where I was a student, I founded my workshop and where I work nowadays as well with my wife doing the pottery profession."
Végh Ákosné Hilda
"I started to learn the craft at Majolika factory in Hódmezővásárhely and finished in Budapest at Vocational Secondary School of Visual Arts as an intermediate ceramist.
We arrived here from different ways: from the masters of folk ceramic trough vocational school to the individual experimentation.
We would like to set our products in casual living, make those useful and modern, just to please anyone in everyday life.
That’s how an ancient profession’s pots gathering dust on museums’ shelves could turn to helpful objects in our days."
Biography of Végh Ákos
1979 • Porcelain potter exam, Aquincum, Porcelángyár;
1981 • Young Master of Folk Arts title, Budapest;
1981 • Gerencsér Sebestyén Nationwide Potter-competition II. prize;
1982 • II. Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé III. prize;
1985 • Folk Arts And Crafts title;
1988 • IV. Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé Mezőtúr town’s surcharge;
1991 • Gerencsér Sebestyén Nationwide Potter-competition main prize;
1996 • Nationwide Potter-competition I. prize;
1997 • VII. Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé Education Department’s surcharge;
1999 • Kecskemét XIV. Nationwide Potter-competition III. prize;
2005 • Kecskemét Nationwide Potter-competition I. prize;
2006 • Karcag Fazekas Triennálé, Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae „For Folk Art” foundation’s surcharge;
2007 • Debrecen, V. National Potter Festival - Tata town’s surcharge
Individual exhibitions
1980 • Helyőrségi Klub, Székesfehérvár
1982 • Kertvárosi Galéria, Tatabánya
1984 • Fazekasház, Zalaegerszeg
1987 • Népház Galéria, Tatabánya
1990 • Helyőrségi Klub, Tata
1999 • Esterházy Udvar, Tata.
Selected grouped exhibitions
1981 • Gerencsér Sebestyén Nationwide Potter-competition
1982 • II. Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé
1983 • Megyei Művelődési Központ, Győr
1985 • Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
1987 • Népfrontház, Szentendre
1988 • IV. Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé
1991 • Tata Castle, Tata’s folk ceramic – Ákos Végh, József Csiszár
1991 • Gerencsér Sebestyén Nationwide Potter-competition
1996 • Fazekasvilág, Szentendre
1997 • Alföldi Fazekas Triennálé
1999 • XIV. Nationwide Potter-competition
2005 • Kecskemét Nationwide Potter-competition
2006 • Karcag, Fazekas Triennálé
2007 • Debrecen, V. National Potter Festival
2007 • Tata, Kuny Domokos Museum, Tata castle
2009 • Tata, Esterházy castle, Víz-Zene-Virág Festival
Works in public collections
Hungarian Institute of Civilization, Budapest
Museum of Industrial Folk Arts, Kecskemét
Hagyományok Háza, Budapest
Bibliography
~ (kat., Tatabánya, Kertvárosi Galéria, 1982)
The Masters of Modern Ceramics 1984 Faenza, Italy
The Masters of Modern Ceramics 1986 Faenza, Italy
KÖRMENDI G.: ~ fazekas, Komárom megyei Néprajzi Füzetek 2., Tatabánya, 1987
KÖRMENDI G.: A tatai fazekasság története, Tatabánya, 1988.
POLGÁR Anna, Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem Savaria Egyetemi Központ: A tatai fazekasság, Szombathely 2009
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