Arpad Racz

1954              
born in Nussdorf, Siebenbürgen / Romania

1977-1978     
training as a draftsman

1979-1985     
draftsman and designer (CPL Bistritz)

1987-1989     
Manager and organiser of the public art gallery „Sugalete“
of the „Uniunea Artistilor Plastici din Romania“, Bistritz / Romania

Commissional work:

1993-1995     
Renewal of four monumental sculptures (Heinrich, Kunigunde and two Rokokovases) for the facade of the Karmelite monastery in Regensburg (UNESCO world cultural heritage since 2006)

2007               
Production of the sculpture „The Resurrection“ in Kallmünz

Awards:

1983                1. prize for painting / Cantarea Romaniei
1985                1. prize for sculpture / Cantarea Romaniei
1987                1. prize for sculpture / Cantarea Romaniei

Solo and group exhibitions after 2000 (a selection):

2000                Mühlentheater, Möhrendorf
2000-2002       clinic St. Marien, Amberg
2002                castle, Bad Bergzabern
2002                Guardini Gallery, Munich
2003                Schlosshotel, Wernberg
2003-2010        Blaue Lilie, Kallmünz
2006-2007        Gallery am Fels, Kallmünz
2008                DEZ, Regensburg
2010                Kratzmannsche Kate, Stapelfeld
2010                Gallery Zeitgeist, Nuremberg

„Arpad Racz is an artist who has created an environment aroud himself, in which he can literally devote himself to his work without compromises. He relentlessly tweaks his ideas and develops his own new techniques for their realization and materialization. He plays with shapes and colours, with materials and space. It may happen that he melts a stone and a human body together in his paintings, or that he paints a large coloured three dimensional structure and he even paints giant wooden pebble stones or stone made seeds. Arpad Razc always remains a craftsman who uses traditional materials and remains specific and down to earth. Or he seeks anchorage here in this world, which are all personalities….“

Quote form Gisela Walch, sculptress

„….to me art is a form of expression, an inner urge for communication; a language by which I can say what I think – about nature, about life and about eternity. For me art is a long path on which I have been traveling for more than 30 years now. A path that leads me through fields of grass and grains over clear streams through cultivated fields, over mountains and through forests – a path to paradise. The paradise I imagine to be here on earth and not in heaven or on some other planet but here – with us and between us. It´s a long path – through years and seasons, through the mornings, the days, the evenings and the nights. I see nature through the eyes of a painter and take the colours which nature so gernously supplies me with – I take them to my studio and try to preserve them on canvas….“

Arpad Racz