Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 29. (Budapest, 2013)
The Museum of Applied Arts in 2011-12
Golden Age 28lh September - 4th November 2012 The president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Kossuth prize-winning interior designer György Fekete, celebrated his 80th birthday in the autumn of 2012. While the 2002 exhibition held at the Vigadó Galéria surveyed his work as an interior designer, this exhibition focused on works made over the past three years using a wooden mosaic technique. Alongside the 33 wooden mosaic compositions visitors could also see György Fekete’s drawings, book illustrations and small compositions as well as photographs of his mural works. The Hungarian Design Prize 2012 5th October - 2nd December 2012 The exhibition held to coincide with Design Week, and organized by the Hungarian Design Council, displayed the work of the prize-winners in the product, concept, visual communication and student categories. The aim of the prize was to show what Hungarian design is capable of, raise its profile, and help to establish reputations, as well as improve the competitiveness of some of Hungary’s products by means of successful design. FISE 30 - The Studio of Young Designers Association 30th Jubilee Exhibition 6th October - 2nd December 2012 In October 1982 the Studio of Young Designers representing the professional interests of young designers and artists came into being under the aegis of the Art Foundation. Their first exhibition, which proved a great success, was held at the Ernst Museum in 1984. The Studio, which took the form of an association in 1990, currently has 350 members. The exhibition displayed the work of the members and represented all the fields of design. The displays were arranged according to the disciplines practised within the association (interior design, photography, graphics, industrial design, fashion, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles). A Century Stitched in Thread-110years of Halas Lace 14th December 2012 - 24th March 2013 The exhibition opened on the 110th anniversary of Halas lace’s first public appearance. It harked back to the Christmas market organized by the Applied Arts Association and held at the Museum of Applied Arts in 1902, when the first Hungarian needle lace dreamt up by the designer Árpád Dékáni (1861-1931) and the inventor of the lace making technique Mária Markovits (1875-1954) was first seen by the general public. Apart from the particularly important pieces representing a formal world in which the Art Nouveau style was successfully combined with folk art motifs, the exhibition traced the history of Halas lace, paying attention to some of its finest designers and the varieties of Halas lace existing in what continues to be a highly skilled craft. The curator of the exhibition was Lilla Erdei T. Apart from the items lent from within Hungary and abroad, the Museum of Applied Arts also supplied objects from its own collection to the exhibition held in the building of the Budapest Puppet Theatre (the Java wayang puppet exhibition, entitled Fairy Tale Puppets from the Fairy Tale Continent, 3rd March - 12th June 2011), as 113
