The exhibition, the first retrospective of the artist?s work since his death in 1983, was organised by the local council of Sevres with the support of the Hungarian Institute in Paris. The show?s chief patron is Hungarian ambassador to France László Trócsányi.
The exhibition includes work from 1920 until 1970, said curator Júlia Cserba. Vörös was well known in the 1920s and 30s but is now undeservedly overlooked, she added.
Vörös was born in Esztergom, not far from Budapest, in 1899. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Budapest and moved to France in 1925. He lived in Sevres from 1948 until his death.
Today, Vörös?s work can still be seen in his studio in Sevres, in the Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery in Budapest, outside of the Bálint Balassi Museum in Esztergom and in the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs.
Vörös?s sculptures have angular shapes and bear the influences of cubism as well as art deco. His favourite material was cast bronze but he also made objects from ivory, steel, copper and plastic.
The exhibition at the Sevres city hall runs until September 30.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
