Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Events 2009-2010

2010 On 4 February 2010, the president of the Hungarian Patent Office and the Design Council Dr. Miklós Bendzsel and designer Róbert Mascher opened the exhibition of artists who were granted the Kozma Lajos and Moholy-Nagy László Scholarships for Design in 2009. In the show open until 21 March the interested public could get a glimpse of 30 young creators' work supported by these scholarships for a year. The guest country of the thirtieth Budapest Spring Festival in March 2010 was Denmark, hence various Danish events enlivened the festival program. On 20 March Danish minister of culture Dr. Per Stig Moller opened the exhibition The Danish Jewellery Box: Contemporary Danish Jewellery. Toured by the Copenhagen Museum of Applied Arts, it presented Danish jewellery since the mid-20th century using new, often startling or even bizarre materials and forms. Open until 11 April, the showing of some 170 objects was curated by Mette Saabye and assisted by Eszter Agnes Szabó on behalf of the Museum. On 14 April another exhibition highlighted the importance of environment-conscious behaviour. The World in the Mirror organized by the OKO-Pack Non-profit company and open until 16 May was based on the creative ideas of the Green Youth and the Cellux Group. The exhibitors wished to address the young public first of all with a complex pedagogical material centred round the message that the now global consumption-based way of living is non-sustainable in the long run in modern societies. Visitors could meet with different environment-con141