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

Events 2009-2010

Aristocratic Textiles from the Esterházy Treasury, exhibition interior scious behaviours like composting, selective garbage collection, conscious shopping by adopting which they could contribute to the protection of our environment. The exhibition was opened by Dr. Béla Katona, president of the National Sustainable Development Committee. Panni Pais, a member of the Cellux group and Gergely Hankó, PR and Marketing director for OKO-Pack Co. held speeches. Special programs were also organized for the visitors during the exhibition, including a Conference in search of the future for specialists of sustainability and environmental culture but also open to the public, short films of inspiring urban initiatives were projected and on Sundays special guided tours and workshops were available under the name Creative picnic. Prize-winning works of the Secondary School Competition of Visual Arts were collected for Retrospective, an exhibition arranged by Béla Zombori, a retired lecturer of the teachers' training institute of Moholy-Nagy University, organized by the Office of Education with support from the Association of Hungarian Art Teachers and the Visual Education Committee. Open from 8 May to 6 June, the exhibition was opened by artist and department head János Szirtes and enriched with the performance of music student Attila Tükrösi. Though they lived and worked mainly in India, Erzsébet Sass Brunner and her daughter born in Nagykanizsa left over two thousand of their works to the House of Art in their native town and to the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts. Erzsébet Sass Brunner mainly painted landscapes, streetscapes and still-lives while her daughter Erzsébet Brunner was first of all a portraitist and the first European artist to depict the Dalai Lama. On the centenary of 142