Marta Pan
Hungarian–born French sculptor (1923–2008)
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Early life
Marta Pan was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923.[1] She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest.[1]
Work
Pan's sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry.[1] She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment.[1] In 1946 Pan moved to Paris, where she met Constantin Brâncuşi and Fernand Léger.[1] In 1952 she married André Wogenscky, who was a studio assistant to Le Corbusier.[1] Her early sculptures were highly influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier.[1] In 1956, Pan created Le Teck, which consisted of two moveable parts.[1] The choreographer Maurice Béjart later created a ballet, also entitled Le Teck, inspired directly by Pan's sculpture.[1] Béjart's ballet was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation building in Marseille, France.[1] 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.[2] In 1990 she made Celle floating sculpture in Italy for the Gori collection - Fattoria di Celle.[3]
Death
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[4]
- Sculpture flottante, Otterlo (1960), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands[5]
- La Perspective (1992), Musée de la Ville de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines, Île-de-France), France[6]
- Floating Sculpture No. 3 (1972), Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA[7]
- 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.[1] Pan's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[8]
Selected works
Amphitheatre
Floating sculpture
Floating sculpture
