At the beginning of november, on a late autumn morning the city of Kecskemét woke up with one then next morning with another huge steel sculpture, on one of the main roads leading to the city center. The so called Izsáki road got the Hexaverzum into the middle of one roundabout, and few 100 meters away, another roundabout got the „A jó lovas katonának” sculputure.
„A jó lovas katonának” in english means something like „The good horse-soldier” but the artpiece actually is not a horse, neither a soldier. It is a quote from a folk song, collected by Zoltán Kodály, the world famous composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher, who was born in Kecskemét. The main element of the artpiece is a treble clef and the sheet music of the quoted song, as well as a pixelated portrait of the musicologist, as a sign of great respect to one of the biggest men of this city.
The Hexaverzum is a blended word out of hexagon and universe (in hungarian „univerzum”), just as blended and tricky as the statue itself. Lines are turning and rotating around in a hexagon form, leaning out vertical plane. The piece pays homage to engineers, the 60 years old Neumann University’s GAMF Faculty (Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science) and the KÉSZ Group itself.
Both statues given by the KÉSZ Group to the city of Kecskemét as a present, designed by István Árvai and Ferenc Schell, and are waiting for anyone to discover, and learn about the local history, about art and engineering through these artpieces.
