Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 20. (Budapest, 2001)

Diary of events 2000

Péter Pázmány Catholic University, and a concert by the chorus Arpa d'Or rendered the opening ceremony a memorable event. The last exhibition of the year was another retrospective survey. Arranged by Piroska Acs, the exhibition introduced artist potterer Ilona Kiss-Roóz's oeuvre. At the opening ceremony the eighty-year-old artist was toasted by her friends: Director of Advisory Office of Fine and Applied Arts Mrs. Ferenc Keszthelyi and reporter Jenő Knézy made speeches, which were followed by a concert given by Liszt Prize winning soloist of the Hungarian National Opera House and awarded of the Distinguished Artist medal Etelka Csavlek accompanied on the dulcimer by Viktoria Herencsár. Judit Pataki For the Ferenc Hopp Museum the event of the year was the opening, on Mai 20, of a new exhibition: Japanese Miniature Carvings. Netsuke in the Japanese Collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest. With the help of 340 pieces selected from the 550 artefacts in the Japanese collection, the exhibition presented the superior craftsmanship of the Japanese netsuke-makers, a wide variety of materials and techniques, subjects and motifs from the 17

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th century. This exhibition was organised by the expert of Japanese and Chinese Art, Eva Cseh, (retired) curator of the Japanese collection. Opening address was given by His Excellency Nukazawa Kazuo, the Japanese ambassador to Hungary. A catalogue bearing the same title was published to the exhibiton in Hungarian as well as in English. In addition to the above, visitors to the György Rath Museum could see its permanent exhibition Collecting Oriental Art in Hungary, as Reflected in the Collections of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts (opened in June 1977) as well as the Rath Memorial Room (opened in December 1998, to commemorate György Rath, the first director of the Museum of Applied Arts and the founder of the Rath Museum). Mária Ferenczy