Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Acquisitions between 2006 and 2010

2.5 "Ascending clay man or descending golem. Now I think it can be vice versa" Levente Thury, 1992 Chamotte clay, glazed, textile, wood Unmarked H.: 166 cm, w.: 60 cm, d.: 22 cm The sculpture has a ceramic figure stretched out inside a wooden frame with metal wires. The figure is only shown to the chest, head turned sideways with plump cheeks, fin-like protrusions at the temples and the cheeks, a banderole at the mouth with the writ stamped into clay. A finely woven and embroidered textile fragment is tied in a knot on its finger. The work is one of the main pieces of the Golem series. Donation by the Summa Artium Non-profit Co. to Support Culture, 2009 Inv. no. 2009.167.1 2.6 2.6 "Tower from the city" Pálma Babos, International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, 2007 Signed, on the narrow side of the base lower left, incised: Babos Pálma H.: 45 cm, w.: 32 cm, d.: 18.3 cm On an oblong porcelain base there is a multi-storey construction of small porcelain slabs representing a skyscraper. During firing, the material and structure got deformed, the subtle, fragile, translucent edifice tilted. The crooked tall tower-like edifice reminds one of collapse, decay, the ephemeralness of the man-made world. It belongs to the series "Memories of the Future". Purchased with support from the Design Section of the National Cultural Fund, 2010 Inv. no. 2010.35.1 Gabriella Balla 2.7 Glass picture of a still-life with fruits Designed and made by Júlia Báthory, Paris, the 1930s Plate glass adorned with grinding, engraving, silver leaf, patinated Marked: bottom left with the interlaced initials BJ scratched into the silver leaf H.: 29.1 cm, w.: 40 cm, d.: 0.6 cm In an oval dish in the middle of the lying oblong format there are summer fruits pear, cherries and apple - and to the left of 118