Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 16. (Budapest, 1997)

Kiállítások, események 1995-96

film shows, performances and lectures for visitors. The exhibition staged from September 29 until October 29 paid hommage to the recently-deceased Transylvanian textile artist Ella G. Olosz, with a display of her distinctive wall tapestries. The exhibition was opened by Dr. Tamás Hofer, Director of the Ethnographical Museum. The exhibition put on by the Royal Canadian Academy of Fine Arts reflected the versatility of approach employed by the architects, park and landscape engineers, craftsmen, designers and graphic artists of a faraway country. With the exhibition entitled Canadian Design, the Academy staged its first exhibition abroad since its establishment 100 years ago. This exhibition was open to the Hungarian public from October 15 until November 15. The Hungarian Ceramic Artists' Association staged an exhibition of works by contemporary ceramic artists in the Vigadó Gallery, and also organized a series of events connected with the exhibition. Within the framework of this, the exhibition TwentiethCentury Hungarian Ceramics Artists, comprising items selected from the Museum of Applied Arts collection, was opened by Katalin Keszthelyi, Director of the Fine and Applied Arts Publications Office, on October 19. The task of those putting on the exhibition - Gabriella Balla and Eva Csenkey was to show the antecedents of the present trends. For some years Aliz Torday has been staging a series of exhibitions presenting the oeuvres of prominent Hungarian textile artists. This year it was the turn of the Erzsébet Perczel Commemorative Exhibition, which was open to visitors between November 10 and December 31. From the material of the International Contemporary Ceramics Museum (which is soon to open in Kecskemét and which is intended to house almost 2500 art objects), Eva Csenkey, a researcher at the Museum of Applied Arts, and János Probstner, head of the Kecskemét International Ceramics Studio, selected nearly 300 items for display to the Budapest public between December 13 and March 17, 1996. At the opening of the exhibition, which was entitled Founding a Museum, Hans Beck, Head of the European Union Delegation to Hungary, and Dr. László Balogh, President of the Bács-Kiskun County Assembly, delivered speeches. After these there followed a concert given by Kecskemet's Zoltán Kodály School of Music. The catalogue of the exhibition was published by the Ceramics Studio in Hungarian and English. In this Dr. Zsuzsa Lovag, Hans Beck and Dr. László Balogh explained their views on the Ceramic Studio's need for a museum of its own, while Eva Csenkey's paper "Mouseion in the Museum" gave an account of the Studio's work so far and its importance internationally. Following an almost full-page colour photograph of an art work by each of the thirty-four artists exhibited, János Probstner briefly summed up the history of the Studio. Finally, the events of the previous twenty years were reviewed with the aid of a chronological table. A development of outstanding importance for the presentation of Hungarian culture abroad occurred between September 5, 1995 and June 16, 1996, in the form of a series of events arranged in a number of big cities in Japan. Thanks to the initiative and support of the Japanese Embassy in Budapest, and especially to Mr. and Mrs. Tsutsumi, the host museums and the Japan Art and Culture Association took on a considerable amount of the organizational work and all the expenses. This series of cultural events commemorated Hungary's Millecentenary. In line with the task outlined by the hosts in Kyoto, this invitation, which was a great honour, was shared by the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, the Budapest History Museum's Kiscell Museum, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs and the Kecskemét Art Gallery. The exhibition PANORAMA: Architecture and the Applied Arts in Hungary, 1896-1916 was opened on September 5, 1995 in Kyoto,