Three Generations [antikvár]

THREE GENERATIONS The potters Géza Gorka (1894-1971), his daughter Lívia Gorka (b. 1925) and his grandson Géza Focht (b. 1952) Géza Gorka, the great renewer of 20th-century Hungarian pottery and founder ofadynastyofpotters,wasbornin 18 94. The period of exactly a century between this date and 1994 spans the lives of three persons, all of them potters, three people of special talent, working by themselves, following their own autonomous lives. They do not adapt themselves to fashions or trends, or set out to resemble anyone else. They measure themselves by their own standards, an outside observer might conclude. On better acquaintance with them and their works it becomes apparent that their yardsticks are the laws of materials and nature, their knowledge of them and the beauty of nature. For their works and their words emanate the respect and humility they display before nature, life, cultures and materials, perhaps because they are consistent in their commitment to these, and reserved, and so through their struggles they and their work become part of life. Dr Lilla Szabó Art Historian Hungarian National Gallery