The exhibition, entitled Zsolnay: Tradition and Innovation, shows some of the factory's best serial works as well as objects commissioned from ten contemporary artists, among them Ilona Keserű, István B. Gellér, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Zoltán Pál, Imre Schrammel and Zsolt Czakó.
Munkácsy Prize-winner Zoltán Pál's made a fine white tea set with silver stripes. Written in Braille on the cups is Zsolnay, Pécs, 2010. Kossuth Prize-winner Imre Schrammel has created a green eosin mask, and the painter Ilona Keserű, also a Kossuth Prize-winner, has made a colourful bowl.
A book of designs for Zsolnay's products that contain the work of József Rippl-Rónai from more than a hundred years ago is part of the exhibition.
MUPA is also showing Zsolnay porcelain jewellery by the Hungarian fashion designer Kati Zoób.
Csaba Rusza
, who heads the programme management company for Pécs2010, said Pécs and the Zsolnay brand shared a 150-year history. One of the main investment projects for the 2010 programme is the transformation of the area around the porcelain factory into a cultural quarter, he added.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
