Vera Csík
Verónika Csík (Veszprém, Hungary, January 9 1935, - ), known by the artistic name of Vera Csík, is a Venezuelan-Hungarian sculptor who emigrated from Hungary on the decade of 1950’s and is known internationally by her ceramic and Bronze sculptures. Her art involves natural topics and has been bought and presented by particulars and institutions in countries as Australia, England, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, United States, Spain and Hungary.
Biography
During the Second World War, the Young Vera abandoned her mother country and found sanctuary with her family in Bavaria, Germany. She won a scholarship for the school of plastic arts there, and coursed several studies of ecclesiastical art in two institutions between 1947 and 1950. However, her parents searched for other options in South America, so Vera arrived to Caracas in 1950 at age 14 years. In her first 10 years in Venezuela she worked in the area of the painting and Hungarian folkloric embroidery, elaborating along with her mother the clothes of the Hungarian Traditional dance group of Caracas. She also contributed with the Hungarian Cultural House of Caracas, decorating the internal wooden columns with Hungarian traditional paintings of floral motives. In this way, she always tried to keep her sentimental and cultural connection with her country, and also motivate the young immigrant generations to grown close to those ideals. Vera worked in Caracas in several branches of the decoration until 1970, always creating table-covers and clothing for the still-growing Venezuelan-Hungarian community of immigrants. In 1960 she married the Hungarian immigrant Vitusz Rostonics, with who she had two children. As she assumed her role as mother, she kept performing her abilities in the sculpture, assisting to courses in the academy Escuela Artes de Fuego, where she mastered the techniques of Vitreous enamel, and ceramics, glass, raku and metal working. The Vera became one of the first ones into master the ceramic as professional artist. She always interested towards topics related to the nature, like flowers, horses, birds and South American native characters, but her horses became the most famous and the ones that made her famous. Memories of her childhood in Hungary, where she frequently went with her mother in horse rides, and also the Hungarian’s natural love for horses made this noble animal, her favorite topic, representing it in many exotic ways. From 1987 to 1988 she had three individual exhibitions, witch made her known between the plastic artist of Venezuela. Her daughter Kincső Rostonics soon joined her mother in 1987 and since 1989 together had several exhibitions through the country until 1997 when Vera finally retired.
Individual Exhibitions:
- 1980 Galería de Fedecamaras - El Bosque, Caracas.
- 1984 Galería Arte Maite - El Hatillo - Caracas.
- 1987 Galería Marquez Ríos - El Hatillo - Caracas.
Vera Csík and her daughter’s exhibitions:
- 1991 Galería Art Nouveau - Maracaibo, Venezuela.
- 1991 Galería Sotage - Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.
- 1992 Galería Fundafaci - Hotel Eurobilding, Caracas.
- 1995 Galería Coelcciónarte - Las Mercedes, Caracas.
- 1997 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI) - (exposición de esculturas de bronce).
- 1997 Piece adquired for the colection of the Contemporan Art Museum of Caracas -Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACCSI) - (permanent exhibition).
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