One of the reasons of the popularity of iron and steel is that their limits can be extended much farther than those of stone, wood or bronze sculptural art. The artistic techniques of the elaboration of this material have infinite opportunities; bending, cutting, hammering and welding lead to different ways. The sculpture is individual, like the one made from stone or wood, but the material allows more wide-range formal challenges. Since the artist works the material directly, there is nothing between the artist and the material, so there is a wide space for the direct appearance of feelings, emotions and gestures, for more expressed self-expression, but at the same time iron has the possibility to build more constructive sculptures created with engineering accuracy.
The path of steel sculptural art has always been closely linked to the knowledge of manufacturing technologies, without which the sculptor would be unable to cope with iron. In Hungary the conditions of steel sculptural art have also been created in metallurgical plants or their neighbourhoods. The most well-known shops have been established in the cities – Győr, Dunaújváros and Tatabánya – playing a significant role in former socialist industry development. In 2004, in a new economical-political situation, Kecskemét was also classified as the location of Hungarian steel sculptural art.
The dreamer and starter of the colony of steel sculptural artists in Kecskemét was Gyula Majoros, fine artist. With the help of the management of KÉSZ Kft., manufacturing steel structures for building industry, the 1st Symposium on Steel Sculptural Art of Kecskemét was organized in August 2004 in the former tube-milling factory hall, with the participation of six artists. KÉSZ Kft. provided an opportunity for sculptors to create outside of studio conditions, in the KÉSZ Industrial Park of Kecskemét, and for the first time an exhibition was organized from the works made here in the Bozsó Collection of Kecskemét. Since then the popularity of the camp has been growing year-by-year, and the works created here have been shown with great success both inland and abroad.
