József Lukács (Joka)

We know the Artist: 

born in 1968 in Budapest Hungary, he attended the high school of Applied Fine Arts from 1984 to 1988 focusing on traditional painting and printing.

After this, he studied at Janus Pannonius’ University of Fine Arts in Pécs from 1989 to 1995 focusing on modeling, painting, printing and photography.

During his Masters in the same place from 1996 to 1998 he specialized in assembly, screen-printing, stone and wood carving.

Between 1998 and 2001 during his studies at the Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA) he participated in an exchange between students at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, specializing in the art of carving and wood carving having as teach David Seaton.

He graduated with honors in 2009 from the University of Pécs in Hungary in the art of wood carving and sculpture.

He has been an assistant to numerous artists, such as Attila Rath Geber, Andy Goldsworthy, Andres Klimbacher, Colin Foster, Serge Vandercam and Michael Wright.

His works are exhibited in several countries in private and group exhibitions, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, France, Serbia, China, Austria, Iran, and Romania.

He has participated in numerous symposia abroad and in his country, carving both on wood and on stone.

Realization for the Symposium of Predaia 2022:

The sculpture created by József has the title “Climbing tree for Adults”.

The artist has done several works in children’s playgrounds, generally containing swings, climbing trees and small “pieces” for seating.

These sculptures, in harmonious and regular forms, proved to be important for both children and adults.

The idea for the Symposium is basically to create a vertical sculpture, with natural rounded shapes, joined together by a central and invisible personal order.

All the shapes that seem to take different paths find themselves in a single path, like the fingers that can move and point in many directions.

Basically the model shows the vines, sculpted from a single trunk.

Working a sculpture is like a slow and sensitive conversation with the material.

Wood is silent, it communicates softly giving different options towards modeling.

It maintains a permanent, concentrated fresh awakening action in the person between play and seriousness.

This playfulness contains a kind of liberated courage that offers a vital and natural result compared to the rigid plan of execution.