Viktória Maróti

Moderne arachné

April 1 - May 11, 2023

Viktória Maróti. Exhibition at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, 2023

A graduate of the Budapest University of Art and Design, young Hungarian ceramist Viktória Maróti aims to demonstrate the full potential of porcelain. Her pieces evoke traditional weaving techniques, breaking down the boundaries between ceramic and textile design. She reinterprets weaving and basketry, creating virtuoso ceramic structures that are deformed by high-temperature firings in a more or less controlled process. Her work was discovered in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, during the Terralha Competition for Young European Ceramics in 2019, where she won first prize.

Connaissance des Arts
Yonne Magazine

She loves the poetry of opposites. The fertility of oxymorons. Trained at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Viktória Maróti inherited her taste for experimentation and transdisciplinarity from her illustrious Bauhaus predecessor. In 1923, the avant-garde artist presented her Telephonbilder (Telephoned Paintings) at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin: works on glazed porcelain "in which the colors observe subtle variations as the composition is enlarged or reduced". Since 2018, the young Hungarian ceramist has been attempting to transmute porcelain into textiles, in a strange alchemy. With honeycombed geometric cones (Shelter, 2019-2023), wall-mounted meshes (Wall objects, 2021-2023) and flexible woven cylinders (Woven Dissolve, 2018), Viktória Maróti designs and creates series of art ceramics with the appearance of 3D textiles, in a color palette ranging from black to white, cobalt blue to pastel shades. [...]
[...] Viktória Maróti weaves a network of intertwined works: "When I get involved in my working process, my ideas come to me with fluidity, and all my works are connected to each other like links in a chain. The tactile aspect is decisive for me when I create a piece. I have the impression that my hands are also my mind. In this, this modern Arachné echoes the words of Paul Valéry (Idée fixe ou deux Hommes à la mer, 1932): "The mind begins and ends at the fingertips...".
Myriam Boutoulle
Journalist and art critic
"Viktória Maróti, modern Arachné", excerpts