Marta Pan | |
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Marta Pan discussing her work, 1995 | |
Born | (1923-06-12)12 June 1923 Budapest, Hungary |
Died | 12 October 2008(2008-10-12) (aged 85) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Sculpture |
Marta Pan (12 June 1923, Budapest – 12 October 2008, Paris) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin.
Early life
Marta Pan was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923. She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest.
Work
Pan's sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry. She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment. In 1946 Pan moved to Paris, where she met Constantin Brâncuşi and Fernand Léger. In 1952 she married André Wogenscky, who was a studio assistant to Le Corbusier. Her early sculptures were highly influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier. In 1956, Pan created Le Teck, which consisted of two moveable parts. The choreographer Maurice Béjart later created a ballet, also entitled Le Teck, inspired directly by Pan's sculpture. Béjart's ballet was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation building in Marseille, France. Until 1960, all of Pan's sculptures consisted of this two-part construction method, which allowed one piece to be moved, thus altering the work. In 1990 she made Celle floating sculpture in Italy for the Gori collection - Fattoria di Celle.
Death
Pan died on 12 October 2008 in Paris, France.
Public collections
Pan's work can be seen in a number of public institutions and locations, including:
- Floating Sculpture (1973), Dallas City Hall, Dallas (Texas), USA
- Sculpture flottante, Otterlo (1960), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
- La Perspective (1992), Musée de la Ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines, Île-de-France), France
- Floating Sculpture No. 3 (1972), Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA
- Signe infini (1993), intersection of autoroutes A46 and A6 at Ambérieux (Rhône, Rhône-Alpes), France.
- Celle Floating Sculpture (1990), Collezione Gori Fattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori, Italy
Recognition
In 2001 Pan was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale award for Sculpture from the Japan Art Society. Pan's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.
Selected works
References
- ^ "Marta Pan". Praemium Imperiale. 2001. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- "Pan - Artists - Collection Societe Generale", Société Générale, Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- "Fattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori".
- "Public ArtWalk Dallas" Archived 2014-11-13 at archive.today, Public ArtWalk Dallas, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- "Sculpture Flottante - Otterlo" Archived 2014-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, Kröller Müller Museum, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- "Marta Pan" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- "Floating Sculpture no. 3", Lynden Sculpture Garden, Retrieved 23 November 2014.
- Women in abstraction. London : New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc. 2021. p. 170. ISBN 978-0500094372.
Further reading
- "Pan, Marta." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 22, 2012; subscription required).
External links
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- Hungarian women sculptors
- Artists from Budapest
- Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale
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- 21st-century French sculptors
- 21st-century French women artists
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