Faces Concealed in Gold - Golden Masks from Asia runs from March 12 until June 20. It includes 24 gold masks and three silver masks from the Zelnik collection.
After the show closes in Budapest, it will travel to the Hungarian cities of Szeged and Debrecen, then to other venues around the world.
The Zelnik Collection was founded by István Zelnik's father and has been expanded by his son. At present it contains some 16,000 Southeast Asian items, including more than two thousand gold and silver artifacts. Most of the objects are from Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines and East Timor.
" Zelniks's aims are both to educate the general public and to encourage academic research on the objects accumulated during his adult life," according to the website for the collection. Four pillars of the Zelnik Collection that are unique in the world are golden artifacts of the Cham kingdoms, the Khmer Empire, the tribal chiefdoms of the Vietnamese, Indochinese and Southeast Asian Highlands and gold masks of Asia.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: Dániel Kováts
