Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)
Acquisitions between 2006 and 2010
signer at the glass factory in Salgótarján from 1971. In the same year she spent a month in Italy on scholarship and worked for two Murano factories, La Murrina and Moretti. Several of her lamp designs were produced there and put on display at the Milan Fair. Her successes with the Murano-produced lamps earned her an invitation to the Rosenthal company in whose Design Studio in Germany she could realize some of her designs in 1972. Playing with the shapes also applies to this standard lamp; she produced the characteristic pieces of the Lichtobjekt series: lamps, boxes with lids, glass sculptures. This standard lamp was included in Zsófia Kanyák's exhibition at Fészek Club in 1972. It was first shown at the Museum of Applied Arts in 1977, in the exhibition of her collected works staged in commemoration of the artist who died tragically at a young age. Purchased from the artist's mother, with support of the Design Section of the National Cultural Fund. 2.9 "Bronze gate" - glass sculpture Zoltán Bohus, Budapest, 1996 Sculpture from plate glass slabs glued together H.: 35 cm, w.: 15.7 cm, d.: 9.3 cm The block-like sculpture of pieces of plate glass glued together on a regular trapezoid base has its surfaces ground and polished. Between the layers of glass it is sand blasted and metal steamed, which results in the bronze-hued geometric pattern of a row of gates in perspectivically decreasing sizes. Marked at the bottom of the right side: Bohus 96. 2.9 The gate as a theme has inspired the artist to create several works. The earliest piece of the searies is Gods' Gate of 1989, followed by several variations in the 1990s. Illusory interior spaces open inside these glass blocks, visualizing an incomprehensible mystic world. The piece in the museum collection dates from 1996. It was exhibited in Madrid in 2005, in Hollabrunn, Austria in 2007, and in the artist's one-man show in Zalaegerszeg in 2008. Inv. no. 2010.36 .1 Ildikó Kálosi 120
