Őriné Nagy Cecília: A gödöllői szőnyeg 100 éve (Gödöllő, 2007)
THE GÖDÖLLŐ CARPET'S 100 YEARS
Erzsébet Szekeres often exhibits together with members of the Gödöllő Applied Art Workshop. Also, she features in numerous individual and collective exhibitions with her woven and sewn textiles evoking the world of folk tales and ballads, with her knotted carpets ornamented with stylized flowers and with her series of wall-hangings presenting Hungarian saints. Veronika Kunszt produces in Gödöllő as a folk applied artist adhering to the spirit of the former artists' colony. She has acquired a noted place among the Hungarian folk applied artists with her woven and sewn textile works of her own design. Irén Pirók participates in exhibitions showing the tapestry of Gödöllő with textile pictures of religious inspiration. Gabriella Kovács is a young applied artist on her way to becoming known among exhibition goers. Reviewing of the hundred year's history of the carpets in Gödöllő illustrates the spiritual heritage all the artists of Gödöllő share and cherish today in their artistic principles and try to make manifest in their works. This attitude alive up to the present day is perhaps redolent in the following words of Flóra Remsey: "If you live in Gödöllő and wish to make art, with whatever means, you cannot ignore the spiritual and artistic heritage of the Gödöllő Artist Colony... "Once we, who live here, acknowledge this tradition and learn to appreciate its unique qualities, it is our obvious and natural duty to look after it like good farmers. The very core and essence of this heritage is an attitude to man, life and art that respects quality."
