Árpád Márton 75 - anniversary exhibition
Painter Árpád Márton will celebrate his 75th birthday on 6 October. The anniversary is an occasion for the celebrant to take stock and for his admirers to celebrate. It is a good opportunity for the Mayor's Office of Miercurea Ciuc and the Szekler Museum of Ciuc to take stock of the work of our outstanding artist from Miercurea Ciuc, who made our town more colourful and better known in both the wider and narrower world.
To mark the occasion, the artist is presenting the public with the largest exhibition of his work to date: the Szekler Museum of Ciuc will be hosting some 120 works from his long and successful career. The exhibition catalogue and an album of book illustrations by the celebrated artist will be published under the auspices of the Miercurea Ciuc Publishing House and edited by Mária Kozma Kozma.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition will take place on Saturday, 3 October 2015, at 17:00 at the Szekler Museum of Ciuc. The exhibition will be opened by art historian Zoltán Banner and performed by folk singer Erzsébet Györfi.
Árpád Márton was born on 6 October 1940 in Joseni. He studied at the High School of Music and Fine Arts in Târgu Mures between 1954-58, and between 1958-64 he graduated from the Ion Andreescu College of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca with a degree in painting and drawing. From 1964 he was a drawing teacher at the Real High School in Miercurea Ciuc, later the Mathematics-Physics Lyceum, and from 1990 he was a teacher at the Nagy István Secondary School of Art until his retirement in 2001. From 1968 he was a member of the Romanian Association of Fine Artists, and from 1969-71 he was a graphic designer for the Harghita daily newspaper. In 1974, he was one of the founding members of the Friendship Art Camp in Lăzarea (with András Gaál and Lajos Zöld). In 1992, he became a member of the Miklós Barabás Guild, in 1997 he was made an honorary citizen of Joseni, and in 2000 he was awarded the Pro Urbe Prize by the Municipality of Miercurea Ciuc. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the city, in Szeklerland, in Hungary and beyond. In 2004 he was awarded the Jenő Szervátiusz Prize in Budapest, and in 2010 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. His monumental works in Miercurea Ciuc are the ceramic mosaic Cantata profana in the theatre hall of the Municipal House of Culture, 1967, and the mural in the altar of the Millennium Church, 2004.
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Exhibition closing event
Thursday 3 December 2015, 18.00
"The creative secrets of Árpád Márton" - exhibition closing talk by András Szabó, chief museologist, in the presence of the artist.
