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My name is Miklos Demeter. I was born on march 27, 1974 in Saint George. I finished my High School studies in my hometown in 1992 at Mikes Kelemen High School. After that I studied folklore at Pecs University. In 2008 I finished my studies in Hungarian at the aforementioned university.

Handcrafting has been a part of my life since my childhood. I spent a large part of summer vacations at my grandmother’s weaving shop. I started playing music and making instruments during my high school years. It was during my university studies that I got serious about these hobbies and started playing ancient music as well. I have played at the puppet theatre for several years as well as in the Famous Pannonia ancient music group. During these years I made folk and ancient music instruments, folklore toys and household items. Besides regular orders I went to traditional handcraft markets.

I met my wife Petrova Anastasia during my university studies who is of Udmurt nationality, and being a Hungarian-Udmurt major, was studying as an exchange student at the University of Pecs. After our acquaintance I have paid more attention to the Udmurt folk culture. Between 1999 and 2001 we conducted numerous collection trips to Udmurts living in Tatarstan and Mari republic, where traditional Udmurt violin music still exists. It was then that I decided that my life goal will be to preserve and hand down Udmurt violin music. I started making Udmurt violins and began to learn Udmurt violin playing. I made violins for Udmurt folk groups and played the violin in Ekton Korka folkdance studio. The theme of my folk and Hungarian thesis is the folklore of the Udmurts.

We lived in Hungary until 2007. In 2001 our daughter Gyongyi was born, and our second daughter, Kata in 2004.

Between 2007 and 2011 I worked at the National Udmurt University as a lectorate of Hungarian Language as a colleague of the Balassi Institution. During these years I also have visited Udmurt villages in Udmurtia, Tatarstan and Baskiria, to learn their Culture.

In 2011 we have returned to Transylvania, and have chosen to settle in Bikfalva. At the present we earn our living from handcrafting and farming in our backyard. I am a member of the Folklore Association of Hungarians in Romania as well as the member of the Szeklerland Handcrafters Assoiation. My wife makes felt items and I make ancient and folklore instruments and old toys for children. We attend markets for handcrafters on regular bases, and also conduct handcrafting seminars for children. We appreciate nature’s gifts: trees, wool, walnuts, peanuts and clay. Our goal is to make handcrafted items through which one can feel the warmth of the hand and the words of love.

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Szentivánlaborfalva 73

He innovatively crates his household items from bone and horn, always looking for new solutions. He finished his elementary school studies in Szentivanlaborfalva and started working in the cabinet factory in Saint George. He went to apprentice school for three years and also went to private seminars to the school instructor to Kalnok. Since there was a greater demand for bone carving than for wood carving and therefore switched to bone carving. He taught wood carving for seven years in the now known Kos Karoly School. Even though there are some difficulties, he works with a youthful momentum and optimism.

It was his childhood dream to become a detective, however when officers at the Romanian army found out in 1989, he was considered enemy to the communist regime and was bullied and treated brutally until he was emotionally destroyed and later retired.

Nowadays he is occupied with small scale farming, and paints during his free time. He also composes music. He plays his drums and electronic organ. He had several exhibitions in Bikfalva and he has regular exhibitions on Bikfalva Village Days.

By his first profession, he is an Iron worker. He worked in the Distillery of Uzon until retirement. He is also dedicated to his community. He is the head administrator and county judge of the Reformed Congregation in Uzon, besides being a painter as well. He does not consider himself a painter, although, he had several exhibitions in Uzon, and gave some painting as gifts to close friends. He has about 50-60 paintings. He believes that you can only paint when you are rested and the initiation has to come from within.

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I have been involved with three dimensional space as the scene of visual art. I have been installing enclosed space and have done performance sin them. As this process became a unique spiritual path for me the given space has extended, and finally surpassing the chilled elegance of exhibition rooms I stepped out into nature. The microcosm of the artist meets and expresses itself in the infinity of the macrocosm.

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Who is Ferenc Sánta?

He is a painter. A very good painter, from Saint George. But where did he study. He did not study in college! Is he an amateur? No, he is not. Then how can he paint so well? From inner motivation, noble initiation and an almost surrealistic obsession. Because his belief transfers when he touches paintbrush to canvas. His belief is deep, strong and unmovable just like he handles his brush with momentum and precision. His seasoned color scheme and the deliberate avoidance of detail that captures the essence of his theme. The technique of painting can be and should be learned. But what cannot be learned is what gives warmth to this otherwise cold, empty and meaningless technique, no matter how it is applied. Because, the artistic sensitivity, the attraction to form and color is a gift from birth. Ferenc Santa has received more than usual of this capability, and hence the special and unusual approach to his world view, and the uniqueness of religious paintings.

Julia Németh (art critic)

Kiállítások

Csoportos kiállítások:

– Edinburgh (Skócia) – 1991 dec.

– Kovászna – 1992 (Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Emlékmúzeum)

– Sepsiszentgyörgy – 1992. 07.16. – „Tetemrehívás” (Gyárfás Jenő Képtár)

– Ann Art Performance Days3 – 1992. júl.(Szent Anna tó)

– Sepsiszentgyörgy – 1994. júl. – Medium 3

– Budapest – 1994 – „Sepsiszentgyörgyi Műhely” címmel (Vármegye Galéria)

– Kovászna – 1997.04.11. -„A Fa”(megnyitja Starmüller Géza)

– Székesfehérvár – 1998

– Kézdivásárhely – 1998.10.10. (Vigadó Művelődési Ház)

– Kovászna – 2000 – „Az idő arcai, Kövek”

Egyéni kiállítások:

– Sepsiszentgyörgy – 1993.06.01. – Akvarell (S. F. és Czintos László; Sugás áruház Belvedere Galériában, megnyitja Veress Gerzson);

– Sepsiszentgyörgy – 1997.09.18. (Kultúrpalotában); 2001

– Budaörs – 1994, jótékonysági kiállítás (Jókai Mór Művelődési Központ, megnyitja Dr. Surján László és Dr. Losonczi Miklós), (Oktogon Bank Galéria)

– Budapest – 1995 (Virányosi Közösségi Ház – Galéria)

– Baden (Ausztria) – 1995 (családi tárlat)

– Illyefalva– 1996 (Kida Központ)

– Kolozsvár – 1997.09.13 – 1997.09.26. („Kegyelem”– Szent Mihály Római Katolikus Nőszövetség Szentegyház utcai székhelye; megnyitja Murádin Jenő, Starmüller Géza, méltatja Németh Júlia műkritikus)

– Kolozsvár – 1998.09.25. – 1998.10.09. (Akvarell – Szent Mihály Római Katolikus Nőszövetség Szentegyház utcai székhelye)

– Kolozsvár – 1998.09.26. – 1998.10.17. („Isten kezében” – olajfestmények és installációk – a Külső Ref. Egyházmegye Esperesi Hivatalának Gy. Szabó Béla Galériájában)

– Illyefalva – 2001.06.06. – (Rusztika Ház)

– Kovászna – 2001.09.30. – 2001.10. 6. – „Ébresztő” – (Háromszék, Gazda József)

– 105-ös Galéria (Sepsiszentgyörgy) – állandó kiállítás

– Tiszadob – 2002 (Andrássy Kastély)