As part of the DesignPécs event series, an exhibition of the works of the students of the UP Faculty of Music and Visual Arts opened on 7 October in the Nádor Gallery.
"Design Week was launched nine years ago, Pécs was the first rural location. Today, the event is getting bigger and bigger, and there is almost no major rural center that does not have some kind of program that can be linked to design. Since then, a separate department has been established at the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts in Pécs that focuses on design", said Dr. György Fusz, professor of the Department of Design at the UP Faculty of Music and Visual Arts.
"What is design? is it related to culture or industry?" - asked Dr. Katalin Szili, curator of the University of Pécs, Universitas Quinqueecclesiensis Foundation (UP UQF), and then pointed out that although Pécs was a pioneer with design Pécs, it also has traditions on which to build - for this it is enough to think about the series of innovations taking place in the city at the turn of the 19-20th centuries, from the leather industry to porcelain. "Creativity has always been characteristic of Pécs. This, in my opinion, manifests itself mostly in four dimensions: form, fashion, the discourse between society and artists, and the diversity that is the title of this exhibition."
"We want to change the state of financing" - Dr. Katalin Szili referred to the possibilities provided by the university's model change, and continued:
"because it is art that makes us, who we are."
The objects of the exhibition may be familiar: there were several exhibitions in which one or another of the materials now on display have been already on display. One such example is the beautiful mill game, the creation of Gergely Szula, which is like an ancient, flattened zikkurat - and the balls used for the game can be stored inside of the clay ‘temple’ lined with red velvet.
The material of the exhibition is indeed as diverse as possible, the uniting feature is perhaps the relationship with nature: the role of natural light, a leaf grain, or horns ‘growing’ on cups are the most impossible aspects.
In addition to the objects, you can also see designer clothes and furniture. For example the “pompom” sweater created by Eszter Illés, I think many visitors would like to have tried on. I would also like to see Borbála Farkas's tinted "glass bricks" used in buildings.
You can visit the exhibition until 21 October in the Nádor Gallery (15 Széchenyi square, Pécs), open on weekdays from 2-6pm.
Written by: Éva Harka
Photo: Szabolcs Csortos
