Visiting period: 9th of February – 30th of March 2024

Opening: The exhibition was opened on the 9th of February 2024 starting from 6 p.m., on the third floor of the Transylvanian Art Centre, by Beáta Bordás, coordinator of the Transylvanian Art Centre and József Gazda, art historian.

This exhibition presents the artist’s early works, which are stylized depictions of workers with a restricted colour scale, his first abstract paintings made in Transylvania, and also his paintings made in Germany. In the succession and juxtaposition of these works, the stages of the development of the primordial composition theme, as developed by Lajos Boros, can be clearly traced. Through the creative principle of primordial composition, the artist creates an order in the abstracted formalism of his paintings that strives for speciality.
The exhibition is accompanied by a trilingual catalogue with a foreword by József Gazda.

Lajos BOROS (Sighetu Marmației, 1928 – Wiesbaden, 2011)

Lajos Boros graduated from school in his birthtown, then studied graphic art at the “Ion Andreescu” Fine Arts Institute in Cluj between 1949–1955; in addition to this, he also listened to lectures on art history, pedagogy, psychology and philosophy. In 1953, he married his university colleague, the painter Anna Jakab, and after the graduation they settled down in Baciu (now part of Săcele in Brașov County). Then Lajos Boros met Hans Mattis Teutsch, who had returned to Romania, and whose art became decisive for a lifetime in the development of his own human and artistic habitus; on his advice he began to study the theory of composition and icon painting.

In 1970, Lajos Boros participated in the exhibition of artists from Brașov in Wiesbaden, and claimed the right of asylum. He lived in Wiesbaden, Germany until his death in 2011, where 3 he worked as a teacher while continuously building his distinctive artistic oeuvre.

In Romania, he switched to abstract painting quite early, already in the sixties. In 1965, he began to work on the theory of primordial composition, and after settling in Germany, his first rudimentary paintings of primordial composition were created (1971). In essence, he elaborated and developed this theory and form further and thus he created his unique world.

Solo exhibitions:
1964: Bucharest, Gallery of the Fine Arts Fund (together with Horea Mihai) • 1966, 1969: Brașov, Arta Hall • 1970: Wiesbaden, Museum • 1973: Mainz, Gurlitt Gallery • 1981, 1995: Wiesbaden, Atelier Christa Moering • 1981: Mühlheim, Katholische Akademie die Wolfsburg • 1982: Wiesbaden, Boogie-Woogie Atelier • 1983: München • 1984: Bochum, Glockentrum
Gallery • 1985: Frankfurt am Main • 1986: Wiesbaden, ADL Studio • 1988: Stuttgart, Rudolf Steiner Haus Gallery • 1989: Dornach; Essen, Preutenborbeckshof Gallery • 1990: Budapest, Vigadó; Amsterdam • 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995: Berlin, Kaspar Hauser Forum • 1991: Schopfheim, Grüne Schlange Gallery • 1992: Hannover, Art Forum; Bochum, Glockengarten Gallery • 1993: Heidelberg, Pendel Gallery; Mainz, Waldorfschule Gallery; Saarbrücken, VHS-Zentrum am Schlossplatz • 1997: Kassel, Anthroposophical Center • 1998: Essen • 2004: Wiesbaden, Villa Clementine Gallery

Commemorative exhibitions (selection):
2014: Berlin; Cluj-Napoca, exhibition hall of the Evangelical Church • 2015: Brașov, House of Hope; Baciu; Covasna, László Kádár Gallery • 2016: Sfântu Gheorghe, Outsider Gallery of Iris House • 2017: Budapest, MissionArt Gallery

Organizers: Town Hall of Sfântu Gheorghe, Transylvanian Art Centre Association
Sponsor: Hungarian Government – State Secretary for National Policy, Bethlen Gábor Fund