Pal Kepenyes

Art salon

Gallery - third exhibition

Pal Kepenyes

Mexican sculptor

September, 10th - December, 31st, 2009

Biography

1947-1948 School of Decorative Arts. Budapest,Hungary

1949-1951 Academy of Fine Arts Of Hungary

1957- 1959 Beoux Arts. Paris, France, Scholarship Monumental Sculptures

* Famous sculptures *

1993 Urban sculpture in Acapulco. Tip Diamond, Town of the Sun. Gro. Mexico

1995 Monumental sculpture, Silhouettes for the IMSS. Monterrey, N.L., Mexico

1994 Donation of the Wailing Wall to Beverly Hills, USA

2000 Commemorative, monumental sculpture for the Republic of Hungary, Mexico

Most important Individual expositions

1957 - Cultural Center, Paris, France
1958 - Visual Arts Gallery, Mexico, D.F. 1959 - Chapultepec Gallery, INBA, Mexico 1960 - Copenhague Gallery,Mexico, D.F. 1965 - Ankrum Gallery, L. A.,California 1965 - Southameon East Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1965 - Museum of modern Art. Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
1971 - Trianon Gallery. Palm Beach, Miami, U.S.A.
1972 - Lepe Gallery. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1973 - Edgard Munich Gallery. Mexico, D.F.
1976 - Volks Popular. Berlin Occidental, Germany.
1976 - Mexican chancellery of the IMCE, New York ,U.S.A.
1976 - Calder Saloon. Hotel Camino Real. Mexico, D.F.
1976 - Young Gallery. San Jose California, U.S.A.
1976 - Spanish art gallery. Mexico, D. F. 1976 - Exposition Inter. Galerias, S.A. Acapulco, Mexico.
1977 - Exposición Summa Arts. Hotel Presidente Chapultepec. Mexico, D.F.
1978 - Mexicano Institute. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
1978 - Dovan Museum. Montreal, Canada. 1980 - Museum of modern Art from OEA. Washington, D.C. U.S.A.
1980 - Center of modern art Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico.
1980 - Phoenix Gallery, La Haya, Holand.
1982 - Cultural Poliforum Siqueiros, Mexico D.F.
1983 - Arte Counsler Del Rio, Texas, U.S.A.
1984 - Contrapunto Galley. La Jolla, C.A. U.S.A.
1986 - Instituto Cultural Cabañas. Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico.
1989 - Alan Gallery Drayan Galleries, U.S.A.
1989 - Ana- Izax Gallerie, Inc., Beverly Hills. C.A.
1991 - Jansen Pérez Gallery. Fame and Fortune TV show.
1994 - Chac-Mool Gallery. Beverly Hills, C.A.
1994 - Fred Haisman Gallery. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. U.S.A.
1996 - Mostini Gallery. París, France.
1997 - “Zúruck aus der Ferne”. Museum des Munchner Stadtmuseums. Munchen, Germany.
1998 - Galería Budapest. Budapest. Hungary.
1999 - Unisidad Autónoma Metropolitna Unidad Xochimilco. Mexico, D. F
2000 - Frist Exposition Universidad Anahuc. Mexico D.F.
2001 - Exposition Congres Arquitctura ELEA. Acapulco, Gro.
2002 - Exposition Pavillion Nissan, Automovil
2003 - Exhibition “Caminos Visuales” Club de Empresarios Bosques, Mexico, D.F
2004 - Exposition Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, “Los Vivos”, Mexico, D.F
2005 - Exposition “La Casona de Juarez”, Acapulco, Gro.
2006 - Exposition Universidad Americana de Acapulco, Acapulco, Gro.
2007 - Exposition “Pal Inventa el Futuro”, “La Casona de Juarez. Acapulco. Gro.
2007 - Permanent Exhibition, Galeria Al Sur, Acapulco, Gro.

Personal Manifiesto

I declare I am a living being:
I am both young and old.
I need to breath, eat,
and I love everyone.
I want to see myself,
I want to be seen;
I am playing.

I believe in what I do
Art is not art,
It is magic, illusion, religion;
It is a zest for life!
Its purpose is vital.

I want it to be judged,
And though machines exist,
Let still the hand survive.
Let the individual live on!
Let there be no death!

Pal Kepenyes - Mexican sculptor

(I LIVE) THE SPLENDOR OF FORM

I live here, in Acapulco, in this “eternal present, where life flies by like a falling leaf, without defined seasons”. And yet, the alterations experienced in our “meaty home” push us towards an almost fictitious ending… In the meantime, I am here, on this mountain on the terrace of my home, at a height of 425 meters above sea level. I can see the morning arrive down in the bay, as well as the night, a hurricane, dusk, ships, planes, and big butterflies with (with the scent of women’s perfume). I thoroughly enjoy my new projects, which create new spaces and cells in my brain. I meditate a lot on the taste of “chilate”, and I see new generations grow up, that suddenly appear like mushrooms, and palpitate frantically at the discos, and tomorrow they’ll be taking their kids to school.

That’s how, after some 300 years, after having dwelled in Stalin’s Hungarian jails, surviving with scarce food and clothing, feeling the cold in my bones, I had a dream about Taormina and almost like in a story I found myself on the road. I found this place called Acapulco, many years ago, and I lived an accelerated period of life where what should have taken 100 years arrived in 10… It was a place where we had to keep growing like sharks or mammoths, and I saw the images pass through my mind and heard the sounds. From everywhere I could see the dots that formed colors; I feared and could see how man with increasing speed, dug his own tomb. But up here, I continued to meditate, photographing and recording history. That is how I register the sensation of living, of being myself, of learning first-hand what a being is. I believe, or suppose, that I capture everything, from the flavor of tropical fruit, to the dreams of eternity.

On this road, today, where man accepts (as his destiny) the route of a god, one soaks up all of the possibilities, be they technological, biological, etc. and I, the artist sculptor, arrived at the place where the “sensimeta pales” were, and that is where I found in the infinite labyrinths, the possibility of the go & come, of the alterations of the movement-road, the mathematical multiplication, thick-forest meditation, Aldous Huxley’s refuge.

Yes, my brothers! These are the ever changing mysteries and labyrinths. Come, then! See and change, search with me and take Arian’s thread that will help us return.