Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 23. (Budapest, 2004)

Diary of Events 2003

worked out. One of the events to be hopefully repeated year by year is the Night of Museums when at the weekend closest to Midsummer Night the museums keep late opening hours awaiting visitors with a variety of educative programs. On June 21, the program of the Museum of Applied Arts chose the concept and measuring instruments of Time as its topic. The program was a lucky complement to the exhibi­tion "Sounds of Time - Clocks with specific mechanisms" opened in December 2002. A variety of events suited to the museum environ­ment awaited the guests: Ildikó Pandúr held a guided tour of the Sounds of Time exhibition; fellows of the Hungarian Association of Astronomy showed the sunspot activity through an astronomical telescope; the Ars Longa cham­ber orchestra performed Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5. Academician Mária Ormos held a lecture with the title "Historical time and time in our heads", Béla Bacsó 's feature film "What's the time, Mr Vekker?" and Tamás Tolmár's "Last tango" were projected. That day also witnessed the opening of an exhibition entitled "Measuring the Time - Instruments from the Collection of the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology" by senior official of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage Dr. Erzsébet Szentpéteri Kóczián and deputy mayor of Budapest Dr. János Schiffer, followed by a guid­ed tour of the exhibition led by curator József Vidra. The show closed down on 31 August. In the technological develoment of different vehicles of transportation, it is undoubtedly the automobile that had the greatest appeal in the 20th century. The exhibition "Daimler Chrysler - The Magic of Design" (3 June-10 August) retraced on over 30 model series and demon­stration cars the main stations of the work of industrial designers - constructors of the famous Mercedes cars - employed by the firm. Every Wednesday specialists held lectures organized by curator Krisztina Kender to acquaint those interested with the theme in more detail. Fifty-five contemporary Hungarian interior designers presented partly objects and partly photos of interiors - of hotels, public buildings. private homes - in the showing of "Interior Design in Hungary '03". The organization of the exhibition and the publication of the cata­logue of works and biographies of the exhibiting artists were done by the Section for Interior Design of the Hungarian Chamber of Archi­tecture. The institution asked Aliz Today to curate the exhibition and general director of the Museum Károly Simon to open it. The Series of Prints of Decorative Ornaments - themselves museal objects now - preserved in the library of the Museum inspired Eszter Tiszavári, the director of the library, to launch a series of exhibitions based on them, with the title "The past and present of Hungarian lace". The second showing was the "Hunnia lace", a selection of the material in the library and textile collection of the museum, complemented by items from Mrs Aladár Fáy's collection partly of her own works. Her granddaughter, Mrs Sándor Ónodi Szabó, who makes and teaches the craft of Hunnia Lace, and her pupils held demonstra­tions in lace making at the weekends in September and October. The exhibition opened by art writer Aliz Today could be seen from 15 August to 16 November. In 1993 ceramic designers, creators with many decades of experience, decided to gang up in a group called "DeForma" (!) to revive the form of porcelain utensils. The tenth anniver­sary of the foundation of the group was com­memorated by the exhibition organized by eight participating artists - Pálma Babos, Mónika Bedécs, Olga Benedek, Sándor Dobány, Zsófia Hajdú, Éva Kádasi, Judit Turcsányi and Judit Vida - from their own works, with the partici­pation of art historian Gabriella Balla. The exhi­bition entitled "The porcelain and the DeForma" open from 9 September to 4 January 2004 was opened by Kossuth-prize winner Sándor Kecskeméti and professor of aesthetics Sándor Radnóti. From 15 September, the 13th National Designing Graphic Biennale staged by the Designing Graphic Department of the Asso­ciation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists, the Self-government of the city of Békéscsaba and the Directorate of the Museums in Békés

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