Master's Chair

The “Cadeira do Mestre” (Master's Chair), 2.30 meters high, appears to be empty, awaiting the arrival of an equally colossal master. Nature, however, is that being, the Creator and its own reflection. From there He watches who enters and who leaves, the lawn and the forest just ahead, the sky and the trees; observe, therefore, Himself. This look at nature is by an artist who throughout his life has dedicated himself to reforestation and environmental conservation. Sergius Erdelyi was born in Neusatz (then Austro-Hungarian Empire), currently Novi Sad (Serbia), in 1919. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia (1944). He moved to Brazil in 1953, where he established industries related to engineering, first in São Paulo and then in Tijucas do Sul (PR), where he moved in 1974. Parallel to industrial activities, he also dedicated himself to art, which he began to study in normal education in the 1930s. Throughout this decade and the next, he dedicated himself to drawing, watercolor painting, oil painting and stained glass. Once in Brazil, he expanded his techniques, especially in the field of sculpture, producing more than four thousand pieces that can currently be seen in his former residence in Tijucas do Sul, the city where he died in 2015. He was also an ecologist, philanthropist, inventor and eventual architect.