Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 22. (Budapest, 2003)
Diary of Events 2002
DIARY OF EVENTS 2002 The series of new temporary exhibitions staged in the year 2002 opened with the customary annual show by holders of Lajos Kozma Scholarships in Handicrafts and the Applied Arts. The work of the thirteen young artists attracted praise from Dr. Zsuzsa Lovag, retired general director of the Museum of Applied Arts, at the opening ceremony held on 26 January. From 8 February until 3 March the winners of the Braun Company's International Competition of 2001 - young designers from four continents - were able to exhibit in the Museum: twenty award-winning entries, along with documentation in pictures and text relating to them, could be seen by the Hungarian public thanks to organisational work performed by Krisztina Kender and András Szilágyi. At the opening ceremony Károly Simon, the director general of the Museum of Applied Arts, made a speech of welcome and Peter Schneider, the director of Braun Corporate Design, delivered an address. From 5 March until 7 April designers - this time from Hungary - again featured in the Museum's programme. Co-ordinated by Agnes Fejes, the exhibition by holders of László Moholy-Nagy Scholarships in Design was opened by Dr. Miklós Bendzel, president of the Hungarian Patent Office, and Rita Halasi, editor-in-chief of the magazine Atrium. Commissioned by the Hungarian Ministry of Education, the catalogue was edited by Krisztina Lakatos. An exhibition entitled The Meaning of Glass aimed to display the special faces and expressiveness of glass, a material present in almost all areas of everyday life. Vera Varga, the organiser, used not only 19 th- and 20 th-century artworks chosen from the Museum's collection, but also creations by contemporary Hungarian glass artists to show, by means of as many different atmospheres as possible, the numerous meanings of the material, and of works made from it. After planning work lasting approximately one year, the exhibition was jointly opened on 7 May by Dr. Agnes Heller, professor and academician, and Dr. Lajos Sápi, the director of Guardian Hunguard Float Glass Co., Ltd. With the help of some outstanding artefacts, a brochure published to coincide with the exhibition surveyed the history of glass art in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Its author was Vera Varga and its editor Judit Pataki. A one-month series of events staged in Budapest by the Italian Institute and devoted to the province of Umbria ran from 21 May until 14 June. The Museum of Applied Arts played host to two of these, an exhibition of Umbrian ceramics and a fair connected with it. The exhibition, entitled Umbrian Ceramics under the Spell of Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance, presented forty majolica pieces, half of which were made during the 16 th century and half during the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Gianfranco Maddoli, Umbria's chief cultural counsellor, and Giulio Busti, designer and organiser of the exhibition, opened the show in the presence of Hungarian and Italian officials. On 7, 8 and 9 June the event entitled Umbrian Ceramicists' Workshop took place, at which ceramics exporters in Umbria introduced themselves with the aim of creating possibilities for co-operation with firms in Hungary. During the
