Agnes Husz

I am a ceramic artist.
The working process is an everyday journey for me, and has a kind of rituality in it.
I build sculptures or even bowls in a very unique way from clay strips, stretched out by hand.
I freely shape my objects just like a three-dimensional drawing.
This is what gives my works a recognizable, defining character.
Since I have been living in Japan for almost 30 years, the oriental accent is not just a coincidence. The culture and philosophy of this beautiful country naturally entwinning with my originals, and that is how my pieces, combining East and West are born.
I wish to arouse curiosity, and through mediation by my artwork, to get my audience to think together about the relationship between nature and human beings, to reflect on its elementary significance.

Agnes Husz, a Hungarian born ceramic artist in Japan.
In 1990 she received her master’s degree from the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest.
It is in Holland in 1993 at the European Ceramics Work Center where she develops her first objects made of clay-strips. This unique way of creating shapes with rustic, long, flat clay strips open infinite new possibilities filled with a special aesthetic sense, and is now her signature.
As she is living and working in Japan since 1993, It is not surprising to see a certain oriental flavor in her artwork. Immersion in the mysteries of nature, the tradition and the philosophies of this culture has instinctively brought her to entwine influences of the East and the West.
Whirls, bandaged shapes, spirals implying the motion of binding and loosing, of drawing in and swinging out, or beautiful colored soft shape sculptures. A never-ending circumvolution of living forces through nature into infinite in bowls or platters to large scale sculptures, installations.
She participates symposiums, residences worldwide, giving lectures and workshops.
She awarded prizes in juried exhibitions in Japan and foreign countries.
In 2015 she won the Ferenczy Noemi Prize from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Hungary.
From 2013 she is elected member of the IAC International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva