Over the recent years, my preoccupations as a ceramic artist have materialised in a series of personal exhibitions: Terra – Millenium and Grafiterra, hosted in Cluj, Bucharest, Wels (Austria) and Veszprém (Hungary); Terra Magica, hosted in Art Museum Cluj.
I have chosen for them this title starting from the idea that TERRA can represent a symbol of my artistic expression in ceramic art, which emerges from the memory of the ancient artefacts, transferred into modern experiments—in other words, by making the transition from the ancient to the modern, a process illustrative and defining for the language of my forms oriented towards an contemporary artistic discourse.
In the wake of these experiments, Terra magica has evolved towards an abstract-symbolic figuration, in which the creative effort is subordinated to the anthropomorphic image which is accompanied by drapery or mineral incrustations—wherein the techniques peculiar to ceramic art (patinas, textures and effects resulting from firing) lavishly support and strengthen the plastic expression of the sculptural whole.
PALKÓ ERNŐ
BORN: 8th January 1958, Cluj-Napoca
STUDIES:
1981–1986 Graduate of the Ion Andreescu Fine Arts Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Ceramics Department
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS:
Since 2010 – permanent member of National Association of Hungarian Art Teachers
Since 1996 – permanent member of Barabás Miklós Guild
Since 1991 – permanent member of the Romanian Fine Arts Union
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2017 – Terra Magica, Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca
2007 – Free Atelier, Veszprém, Hungary
2006 – ProArt Gallery, Wels, Austria
2004 – Grafiterra, UAP Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
2004 – Grafiterra, Artis Gallery, Bucharest
2000 – Terra – Millenium, Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest
1999 – Korunk Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
1992 – Small Gallery, Cluj-Napoca
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND SYMPOSIUMS:
2017 – International Biennial Exhibition of Ceramics, Cluj-Napoca
2017 – International Artist Camp, Subotica, Serbia
2016 – International Exhibition of Small Pictures, Subotica, Serbia
2016 – Reduction Project, Kecskemét, Hungary
2015 – International Biennial Exhibition of Ceramics, Cluj-Napoca
2015 – Raku Project, Kecskemét, Hungary
2014 – International Artist Camp, Sazdice, Slovakia
2012 – International Exhibition of Small Pictures, Subotica, Serbia
2010 – Exhibition of Applied Art, Romanian Academy of Rome, Italy
2008 – Argillà International Ceramics Fair and Exhibition, Faenza, Italy
2006 – Raku Project, Kecskemét, Hungary
2003 – Interaction II, Ceramics Symposium, Kecskemét, Hungary
2001 – International Ceramics Symposium, Hamangia, Romania
2000– 2008 – Central-European Artist Colony, Tállya, Hungary
2000 – Pax Danubiana Project, Regensburg (Germany) – Turnu-Severin (Romania)
1999 – Romanian Applied Arts Exhibition, Venice, Italy
1999 – Art-Expo, Budapest, Hungary
1998 – Contemporary Hungarian Gallery, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1997 – Youth Exhibition, Kaposvár, Hungary
1996 – Corpus International Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
1996 – Corpus International Exhibition, Kaposvár, Hungary
1991 – Terra International Design Competition, Osaka, Japan
1990 – Il Trofeo International Competition of Ceramic Arts, Gualdo Tadino, Italy
DONATIONS:
2017 – Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2007 – Central-European Artist Colony, Tállya, Hungary
1998 – Contemporary Hungarian Gallery, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Romania, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany, Serbia
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2008 – Németh, Júlia: Grafiterra. Ernő Palkó’s Exhibition at the Gallery of the UAPR – Cluj-Napoca Branch in Cluj – artworks, places, colours
Litera–Veres, Odorheiu Secuiesc, p. 199.
2007 – Teacă, Corina: The Memory of the Broken Pot, Ziarul financiar, 21.12 / dec. 21.
2004 – Vida, Gheorghe: Under the Sign of the Grafiterra, Tribuna, nr. 55.
2004 – Lazăr, Virgil: Palkó’s Grafiterra, România liberă, 14.09. / szept. 14.
2004 – Németh, Júlia: Grafiterra, Szabadság, 11.09. / szept. 11.
2004 – Antim, Corneliu: Palkó’s Grafiterra, Ziarul financiar, 2.07 / júl. 2.
2004 – Zaharia, Ana, Cultura, nr. 8.
2001 – Cebuc, Alexandru – Florea, Vasile – Lăptoiu, Negoiţă: Encyclopaedia of Romanian Contemporary Artists, Editura ARC 2000, Bucureşti, vol. 4, p. 133.
2000 – Mocanu, Aurelia: Harrowed Earth, Observator cultural, nr. 16.
2000 – Tănase, Oana: Palkó Ernest. Galleries’ Daybook, Arta, nr. 2, p. 46.
2000 – Vida, Gheorghe: Foreword to the catalogue of the Terra – Millenium exhibition
1994 – Józsa T., István: Small Statues of the Moment, A Hét, 22.07. / júl. 22.
1992 – Kántor, Lajos: Foreword to the catalogue of the artists’ individual ceramics exhibition
1992 – Ţoca, Mircea: Foreword to the catalogue of the artists’ individual ceramics exhibition