Opening n.d.,
Opening n.d.,
cast bronze
114” x 36” x 36”
Provenance:
Netherlands
13th Street Winery Permanent Collection since 2009
Literature:
Located on top of the hill, offering a great vista of the vineyards and winery is “Opening”. This sculpture was made in the Netherlands at the end of the seventies. Originally modeled in plaster and cast at an art foundry in the early eighties before shipping to Canada.
Veress believes that sculpture should not merely be a translation of the human experience into form but should also explore the aspect of the human psyche that is detached from everyday life. “Opening” symbolizes the strength we gather from being together in our safe places. The sculpture opens up to the outside world from our secure spot, from that spot we can do what life asks from us, offering us the possibility to grow into space.
Critical Review by Peter de Rijke”
“Karoly Veress seeks and finds visualized solutions to human emotions and knows, in spite of his choice of cool materials like bronze and marble, how to give them a warm feeling. His ambition to create those feelings aims at abstraction as the most objective way to communicate. Furthermore, his strength lies in the fact that the relationship with visible reality never totally disappears. His intellectual understanding and emotional feelings are balance. The works are designed and finished with the utmost care for this purpose.”
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About Karoly Veress
Karoly Veress (Dalnoki Veress, Karoly) (1935-2020) was born in the rugged mountains of Transylvania. The upheaval of the Second World War forced him to recognize the fragility of his environment and the system that shaped it. Veress studied literature at the University of Budapest and studying the Arts at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. For Veress sculpting is more than a discovery; it is an explosion of exploring human emotions, not through words, but through form. Veress once wrote, “I am put on the earth in the middle of creation. My life is a flight into the protection of others, and a flight back to loneliness to see if I still exist. I exist in making sculptures.”
Veress emphasizes that his work not only reflects the time of its creation, but must also have a timeless truth. Sculpture should not merely be a translation of the human experience into form, but should also explore the aspect of the human psyche that is detached from everyday life – from actuality. Art is truthful and authentic when it gives the moment of its creation a place in the universal order. His work, although prompted by personal experiences, spontaneously decouples from the present and evolves into a deeper, almost generically human expression. What Veress expresses in his sculpture relates to all of us, and transcends generations, cultures, and races – this is what gives Veress’s work a timeless truth.
His work graces many private and corporate collections, including that of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, and those of the Dutch and German governments. Veress shares his time between the Niagara region in Canada, and a small village in Hungary, from where his art has continued to grow and develop.
