{"id":1202,"date":"2017-05-30T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad-dialoguesange.org\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:51:19","slug":"vera-szekely-artiste-hanna-dallos-dialogues-ange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad-dialoguesange.org\/en\/vera-szekely-artiste-hanna-dallos-dialogues-ange\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera Sz\u00e9kely, an artist revealed to herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe more I advance in the writing of my encounters with Vera's work, the more I have the feeling that the angel has never really moved away from her. \u00bb<\/strong>
\nDaniel Leger, Vera Sz\u00e9kely Traces<\/em>, Bernard Chauveau Publishing<\/a>, 2016, 176 pages<\/p>\n

\"traces_vera-szekely\"<\/a>Daniel L\u00e9ger and his wife are art lovers. One day, at a sale, they fall in love with a ceramic table whose signature they will only discover later: Vera Sz\u00e9kely. Their purchase, which intrigues them and fills them at the same time, will be the beginning of a story marked by the meeting with this artist of whom they knew nothing. The meeting will be unique, because Vera dies three years later, but their life will be magnetized. This book is the diary of an investigation, in search of the traces, both ephemeral and deep, left by the artist and of a quest for the mysterious source that inspired him.<\/p>\n

The source seems to be able to be located in Hungary, in Budapest. Vera and her husband, the sculptor Pierre Szekely<\/a>, have both been there, very young, students of Hanna Dallas<\/a> in the 1930s and until 1944. Graphic designer, engraver and painter, Hanna was a lively and funny young woman, intelligent and deep, and also an exceptional pedagogue. From her, they learned everything: artistic practice, of course, but much more. They considered her their Master, in the Eastern sense of the term. They were also the first readers of Talking with Angels<\/em>, then still in the state of handwritten notes, of which Hanna was the voice, but not the speaker. It had indeed started with this warning to her friend Gitta Mallasz<\/a> "Be careful, it's not me who's talking anymore. \u201cThose who spoke said to themselves beyond space and time\u2026<\/p>\n

Daniel L\u00e9ger is convinced of this, Vera Sz\u00e9kely will be marked for life by this initiation, and her work is the expression of the inner world revealed by her Master. It draws all its strength, originality, independence and mystery from it.<\/p>\n

\"Table<\/a>
Ceramic coffee table by Vera Sz\u00e9kely (circa 1955) \u2013 Photo Daniel L\u00e9ger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1987, Vera explained the nature of her meeting with Hanna Dallos to Christian Dumon, with whom she was working for an exhibition: "This teaching was more of a love story than an intellectual story, and I believe that is the the most direct route (\u2026) Spirituality is an integral part of life, it's like eating, drinking, working, taking a shower, making love, gardening, it's not separate. We have our feet on the ground and our heads in the sky. We are the link between the two. No one can be detached, dissociated from what is happening in the world. We are part of this magma: humanity. Our actions, our thoughts, what we say, what we eat, what we breathe in, what we breathe out, everything is of enormous importance. \u00bb<\/p>\n

\"Vera
Vera Sz\u00e9kely \u2013 \u201cIn Space\u201d. 10th Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne 1981<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The personality of Vera Sz\u00e9kely has had a great impact on the culture professional Christian Dumon. He remembers the "physical side of his work, his will, the tension of his works, his rejection of softness, of aesthetics, as well as his serenity and his great humanity". But she will mark her daughter Rapha\u00eblle even more, who was only 5 years old at the time. As she walks amid spidery webs mounted by Vera, a gentle lightning strikes her, \u201cimmediate and reciprocal recognition. Vera opened a river for me,\u201d she says. \u201cAll the moments with Vera were out of time, suspended from everyday life. It was my encounter with the spiritual, the limitless dimensions. What Hanna Dallos had been for her 50 years earlier, Vera Sz\u00e9kely was in a way for Rapha\u00eblle Dumon. Their meeting decided her vocation as an artist, but the freedom it gave her later made her withdraw from an artistic milieu in which she was not comfortable. She does not feel less fully creative now that she works the vines...<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you harvest something, cherries, experiences, a certain knowledge of life, you have to share. This sharing is essential. \u00bb Vera Szekely<\/p>\n

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