Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 24. (Budapest, 2006)
Events 2003-2005 (Judit Pataki)
library material of the Museum of Applied Arts. The exhibition was inaugurated on 26 August by the ethnographer Dr. Marietta Boros. On the 80"' anniversary of the birth of the painter József Litkei, former teacher of the College of Craft and Design, a commemorative exhibition entitled 'Reality Fancied and Painted' was organised in cooperation with the artist's wife and Krisztina Kender. The exhibition (open from 6 October to 7 November) was inaugurated by Lóránd Bereczky, general director of the Hungarian National Gallery. On the occasion of the exhibition, an anthology of the artist's oeuvre was published; the volume was introduced by the Kossuth-Prize winner ceramist, Imre Scrammel . In 2004, on the 25"' anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian Design Award, the Hungarian Design Coucil and the Design Terminál Kht. organised the 'Design Week' for the first time. The programme formed a part of the Budapest Autumn Festival and thus enriched the programme of the art festival with a new branch of art: design. The Design Week, a highly variegated event on 13 locales, focussed on the anniversary exhibition, retrospective of the history of Hungarian design in the last 25 years. The exhibition 'The 25 years of the Hungarian Design Award was opened on 18 October by Dr Miklós Boda, chairman of the National Office for Research and Technology. Textile biennales were organized from 1970 to 2000 in Szombathely; the subject matter ranged from wall and spaces textiles to industrial, applied and micro textiles. From 2003 on, textile triennials have been organised. The artistic and applied textile sections of this exhibition were displayed for the first time in Budapest, from 18 November 2004 to 5 January 2005. Its title and topic was the significant word 'Passage'; it was inaugurated by Mária Mihály, deputy director-general of the Museum of Fine Arts. At the end of the year, traditional Christmas fairs were organised. 2005. The first display in 2005 was the interactive exhibition of a playful artist, Antal Kelle, entitled 'VARI.ART', open from 15 January to 20 February. Antal Kelle's works are not pieces of traditionally interpreted static art, but mobile pieces of multiple states, that is, spatial formations on the borderland of statues and meditational toys, and, as such, point to the contact point of these two branches of art. The works, adapting to the environment's features, change appearance, move or offer a representation of emotions and moods. The display was inaugurated by Rita Halasi, director of the Gallery of the Hungarian University of Craft and Design. A related CD-Rom was published, which contains animations, photos, a biography and articles. Experts from five Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) organised the exhibition 'Scandinavian Design Beyond Myth', which displayed some 200 works of art. After displays in Brussels, Berlin and Prague, the exhibition came into Hungary (organised by Zsuzsanna Vámos-Lovay, deputy director-general). At the festive inaugural, in the presence of the ambassadors of Scandinavian countries, Márta Schneider, deputy under-secretary of state of artistic and international relations (the Ministry of National Heritage), Prof. Dr. Philos Widar Halen, main curator of the exhibition and Paul Bache general-director of Danish Arts Agency made speeches. The exhibition was open to the public from 18 January to 6 March. The creators organised a day-long professional conference, where foreign and Hungarian experts on design gave lectures. Dr. Eva Békési, head of the goldsmith section, selected pieces from the private collection of the clock collector and clock restorer Ferenc Radvánszky. The exhibition 'Clocks from the 17 th Century up to the Present' displayed certain special clocks that cannot be seen in any Hungarian public collection. Each clock of the collection of almost 300 pieces is working. The exhibition 'Decorated Eggs. A Choice of
