Trash to treasure: Introducing the works of a Hungarian sculptor – PHOTOS

For the sculptor from Csesznek, everything that is just rubbish for others is valuable.

In Zoltán Rónaszéki’s metal sculpting workshop, he recycles even the most wasteful scraps. 24.hu interviewed him on the occasion of his recently completed, life-size sculpture of Bumblebee.

Zoltán, who originally worked as a coachsmith in Csesznek, started making something different out of scrapped parts by chance, but now, metal sculpting is his life.

Zoltán says that even as a child, he wanted to make a lasting impression. He learnt to use a welder when he was 13 or 14, and he knew then that this was what he had to do. First, he made flower holders, candle holders, and then an iron rose.

He graduated from high school as a coachsmith and worked as such in the next 10 years. Even then, he made a few small things, but he could never fully develop.

In 2018, he passed the Awi welding apprenticeship while working, and this later changed his life. It was a small motorbike made from discarded car parts that set Zoltán on his way.

After that, he received more and more orders and had to decide whether to continue with this or his profession. It was not an easy decision, he hesitated for almost two years before deciding to become a full-time metal sculptor. This, he says, was the best decision of his life.

He has been working on his sculptures for two years now.

“I am moving forward, unbroken, for a long time to come, I hope!  In this time, hundreds of works have left the workshop, it would be difficult to pick out 1 or 2 favourites. There were several train models, I also made a lot of personalised ornaments, but I also made “Wall-e”, the little robot.”